corruttela

English translation: corruption

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Italian term or phrase:corruttela
English translation:corruption
Entered by: Annalisa Distasi

14:17 Feb 4, 2016
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics / Ancient Greek philology
Italian term or phrase: corruttela
Questo studioso è stato l’unico a pensare che nel sintagma non vi fosse corruttela; che entrambe le parole fossero, cioè, ipsissima verba sofoclei.

I understand the meaning of 'corruttela' in Italian but I am struggling to find a commonly accepted English translation for this. Can anyone help? Thank you!
Annalisa Distasi
Italy
Local time: 02:08
corruption
Explanation:
Non si può usare semplicemente 'corruption'?
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heather watson
Italy
Local time: 02:08
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2corruption
heather watson
3interpolation
StefanoFarris
Summary of reference entries provided
Syntagm
philgoddard

  

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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
corruption


Explanation:
Non si può usare semplicemente 'corruption'?

heather watson
Italy
Local time: 02:08
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  StefanoFarris: Corruption/s-corrupted is normally used when discussing the text of ancient works.
3 mins

agree  philgoddard
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
interpolation


Explanation:
Yes, I did agree with Heather, and now the more specific word finally came to my mind.
The problem is also in the SOURCE text, corruttela in Italian means corruption in the sense of bribery. So this bad form of the source distracted me.



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Note added at 36 mins (2016-02-04 14:53:39 GMT)
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Interpolation (manuscripts)

An interpolation, in relation to literature and especially ancient manuscripts, is an entry or passage in a text that was not written by the original author.

StefanoFarris
United States
Local time: 21:08
Native speaker of: Italian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: I agree that this is the meaning, but "corruttela" has an exact and obvious English equivalent, corruption, so you may as well use it.
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Reference comments


28 mins
Reference: Syntagm

Reference information:
It's so long since I did linguistics that I had to remind myself what this means. It's a sequence of syntactically connected words.

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Note added at 42 mins (2016-02-04 14:59:23 GMT)
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And here's "ipsissima verba", so in my opinion "corruption" is the only possible answer:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsissima_verba


    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/syntagm
philgoddard
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Asker: Thanks very much for your help with this! Much appreciated.

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