Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
subendo la naturale usura
English translation:
being overused / becoming hackneyed
Added to glossary by
Wendy Streitparth
Jan 25, 2019 23:06
5 yrs ago
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Italian term
subendo la naturale usura
Italian to English
Art/Literary
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
In A Book On Navigational History
Contesto:
Questo termine—e naturalmente i suoi correspondenti nelle altre lingue europee—descubrimiento, descobrimento, scoperta, découverte, ecc.—deriva del linguaggio pratico dei naviganti. Divenuto d'uso corrente con i grandi viaggi esplorativi del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento, assunse un significato diverso a seconda dei tempi, dei Paesi e delle occassioni, subendo prima di tutto la naturale usura provocata dalla sua stessa utilizzazione pratica. Entrato poi nel linguaggio degli storici, fu largamente impiegato, senza però un accordo sul suo significato.
Molte Grazie,
Barbara
Questo termine—e naturalmente i suoi correspondenti nelle altre lingue europee—descubrimiento, descobrimento, scoperta, découverte, ecc.—deriva del linguaggio pratico dei naviganti. Divenuto d'uso corrente con i grandi viaggi esplorativi del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento, assunse un significato diverso a seconda dei tempi, dei Paesi e delle occassioni, subendo prima di tutto la naturale usura provocata dalla sua stessa utilizzazione pratica. Entrato poi nel linguaggio degli storici, fu largamente impiegato, senza però un accordo sul suo significato.
Molte Grazie,
Barbara
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +1 | being overused / becoming hackneyed | Wendy Streitparth |
3 | becoming trite | Marco Solinas |
Change log
Jan 30, 2019 04:34: Barbara Cochran, MFA Created KOG entry
Jan 30, 2019 16:56: Wendy Streitparth changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/123909">Barbara Cochran, MFA's</a> old entry - "subendo la naturale usura "" to ""being overused / becoming hackneyed""
Proposed translations
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being overused / becoming hackneyed
..the Code may often seem cumbersome, and to use a word which is by now becoming hackneyed, 'hackneyed'.
https://books.google.de/books?id=nQave0fv4mMC&pg=PA232&lpg=P...
... the conscientious stylist does not, however, stop when he finds that a word is becoming hackneyed.
https://books.google.de/books?id=UOH0QSQYapAC&q="becoming ha...
Anger, in and of itself, is a word that carries a great deal of weight, despite being overused.
https://books.google.de/books?id=_DQDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&dq="bei...
If one reads any of the 20th century works on good usage one always finds a section on vogue words: references to words that, at the time of writing, were much in fashion and being overused;
https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbm=bks&ei=X7tMXIzCJpH6wA...
https://books.google.de/books?id=nQave0fv4mMC&pg=PA232&lpg=P...
... the conscientious stylist does not, however, stop when he finds that a word is becoming hackneyed.
https://books.google.de/books?id=UOH0QSQYapAC&q="becoming ha...
Anger, in and of itself, is a word that carries a great deal of weight, despite being overused.
https://books.google.de/books?id=_DQDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&dq="bei...
If one reads any of the 20th century works on good usage one always finds a section on vogue words: references to words that, at the time of writing, were much in fashion and being overused;
https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbm=bks&ei=X7tMXIzCJpH6wA...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
23 mins
becoming trite
See https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/trite for the definition and etymology of "trite".
"worn" would work too.
"worn" would work too.
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Lara Barnett
: Correct meaning, but I find this word can be (ever so slightly) pejorative in terms of usage.
1 day 16 hrs
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