Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
caoutchoucs
English translation:
galoshes, overshoes
Added to glossary by
Mark Nathan
Jan 9, 2007 13:49
17 yrs ago
French term
France
caoutchoucs
French to English
Marketing
Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Russian car market
Le fabricant italien se plait à souligner que son expérience en Russie a commencé avec des livraisons de caoutchoucs au 19ème siècle, et s’est poursuivie dans les années 1970 quand il a transféré des technologies au bénéfice de l’usine des pneumatiques de Nizhnekamsk.
From a short article about Pirelli, the tyre manufacturer.
My concern is the "s" on caoutchoucs. Presumably Pirelli was delivering a crude form of tyre. Perhaps solid rubber ones. So rather than "pneu" they have been referred to as "caoutchoucs"? At the moment I have translated it as "rubber tyres" but am not very happy about it.
From a short article about Pirelli, the tyre manufacturer.
My concern is the "s" on caoutchoucs. Presumably Pirelli was delivering a crude form of tyre. Perhaps solid rubber ones. So rather than "pneu" they have been referred to as "caoutchoucs"? At the moment I have translated it as "rubber tyres" but am not very happy about it.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | galoshes, overshoes |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 | rubber materials |
Emérentienne
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| 3 | rubber goods |
Alain Pommet
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Proposed translations
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galoshes, overshoes
Very useful in Russia!
Websearching - especially reference to the "caoutchoucs de Vatnaz" in Flaubert's Education Sentimentale and other "socques" - suggested to me that "caoutchoucs" meant "galoshes".
Then my piddling little Cassel's F-E dictionary of my high school days told me:
overshoes = caoutchoucs
caoutchouc (pl.) = galoshes
[no entry for "galoshes", funnily enough]
Lexis gives:
caoutchouc - 4. Objet en c. ou imperméabilisé au c. (manteau, chaussure).
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-09 15:21:40 GMT)
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Pirelli is Italy's sole maker of tennis balls and linoleum, its biggest producer of raincoats, rubber sponges, battery cases, overshoes and ice bags. ...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824226,00.html
Puts a whole new angle on being "shod with Pirellis"!
Websearching - especially reference to the "caoutchoucs de Vatnaz" in Flaubert's Education Sentimentale and other "socques" - suggested to me that "caoutchoucs" meant "galoshes".
Then my piddling little Cassel's F-E dictionary of my high school days told me:
overshoes = caoutchoucs
caoutchouc (pl.) = galoshes
[no entry for "galoshes", funnily enough]
Lexis gives:
caoutchouc - 4. Objet en c. ou imperméabilisé au c. (manteau, chaussure).
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-09 15:21:40 GMT)
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Pirelli is Italy's sole maker of tennis balls and linoleum, its biggest producer of raincoats, rubber sponges, battery cases, overshoes and ice bags. ...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824226,00.html
Puts a whole new angle on being "shod with Pirellis"!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Apparently Pirelli have also had great success with a Russian version of their calendar"
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rubber goods
In 1872 , the twenty-four year old engineer Giovanni Battista Pirelli founded Pirelli & C. in Milan, establishing the first factory for the manufacture of rubber goods.
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rubber materials
Because these caoutchoucs have not yet been manufactured, sort of raw materials yet to be transformed and made into tyres. Rubber goods are already transformed, goods made out of rubber.
Or rubber raw materials.
Or rubber raw materials.
Peer comment(s):
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Emma Paulay
: or even rubber plants or is that too raw...?
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Probably too raw, I don't think you could grow heveas in Russia...
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Alain Pommet
: Pirelli was delivering finished rubber products TO Russia
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You're probably right
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