Glossary entry

română term or phrase:

element de compunere savantă

engleză translation:

(neoclassical) combining form

Added to glossary by Peter Shortall
Aug 19, 2011 22:12
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română term

element de compunere savantă

din română în engleză Artă/Literatură Lingvistică
Fără vreun context anume. Pur și simplu nu îmi vine nimic în minte la capitolul acesta. Știu ce este, dar îmi scapa un echivalent englezesc.

Mulțumesc mult.
Proposed translations (engleză)
4 combining form
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Aug 21, 2011 14:54: Peter Shortall Created KOG entry

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Peter Shortall Aug 19, 2011:
Mulţumiri! Thanks - hopefully my posting below will allow you to sleep :D Nice to have you back!
Elena Iercoşan (asker) Aug 19, 2011:
savantă :)) Hey, Peter! Long time no see. Nu stiu de ce îi zice și savantă. E vorba de afixele de origine greacă sau latină, cum ar fi *micro-, pedo-, hipo-*, etc. Sper că e mai clar acum. Se pare că termenul ăsta nu mă lasă să dorm ;) Numai bine!
Peter Shortall Aug 19, 2011:
Savantă Bună seară, Elena! Cred că ştiu termenul englezesc pentru "element de compunere", dar ai putea să mă lămureşti în privinţa sensului lui "savantă"?

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combining form

My Chambers dictionary also gives "combining element", but "combining form" is a more usual term. You could perhaps put "(neo)classical" in front of it if you want to stress the Latin/Greek aspect, but I don't think that's really necessary. Words formed from them are called "Classical compounds", but the "elemente" themselves are "combining forms".

combining form
n.

A modified form of an independent word that occurs only in combination with words, affixes, or other combining forms to form compounds or derivatives, as electro- (from electric) in electromagnet or geo- (from Greek ge-, from g "earth") in geochemistry.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/combining form

Combining form

In the linguistics of word formation, a combining form (also neoclassical element) is a bound base designed to combine with another combining form or a free word. For example, bio- combines with -graphy to form biography.

Words with combining forms are variously called combining form compounds, neoclassical compounds, and classical compounds.
http://ged.insead.fr/definitions/Combining Form?cx=partner-p...

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_compound
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