Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
bemottoed
Portuguese translation:
...lema
Added to glossary by
Cristina Paixão Lopes
Jul 14, 2009 17:20
14 yrs ago
English term
bemottoed
English to Portuguese
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Colegas, não encontro o significado da palavra "bemottoed". O trecho a seguir é de uma publicação de jornal de 1783.
"The decorative appendage of female dress and the newest taste, and highest ton, is the golden collar, epigrammatically bemottoed. Her Grce of Devonshire is said to be the fair inventress of this fashion."
Desde já, muito obrigada.
"The decorative appendage of female dress and the newest taste, and highest ton, is the golden collar, epigrammatically bemottoed. Her Grce of Devonshire is said to be the fair inventress of this fashion."
Desde já, muito obrigada.
Proposed translations
(Portuguese)
| 1 +2 | ...lema |
Luiza Modesto
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| 4 | tornou-se um mote, tornou-se moda. |
soaresmary
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| 4 | com epigramas |
Marlene Curtis
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Proposed translations
+2
20 mins
Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
Portuguese
Brazil
specializes in research articles
Native in: English 
, Portuguese
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese, English
Related KudoZ points
:
92
Selected
...lema
Uma sugestão:
bemotted = prefix be + verbification of motto
Prefix be- (Merriam-Webster):
1 : on : around : over <bedaub> <besmear>
2 : to a great or greater degree : thoroughly <befuddle> <berate>
3 : excessively : ostentatiously —in intensive verbs formed from simple verbs <bedeck> and in adjectives based on adjectives ending in -ed<beribboned>
4 : about : to : at : upon : against : across <bestride> <bespeak>
5 : make : cause to be : treat as <belittle> <befool> <befriend>
6 : call or dub especially excessively <bedoctor>
7 : affect, afflict, treat, provide, or cover with especially excessively <bedevil> <befog>
So you (or anyone here) need to see what fits best in your context.
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Note added at 21 mins (2009-07-14 17:41:58 GMT)
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be-
bemotted = prefix be + verbification of motto
Prefix be- (Merriam-Webster):
1 : on : around : over <bedaub> <besmear>
2 : to a great or greater degree : thoroughly <befuddle> <berate>
3 : excessively : ostentatiously —in intensive verbs formed from simple verbs <bedeck> and in adjectives based on adjectives ending in -ed<beribboned>
4 : about : to : at : upon : against : across <bestride> <bespeak>
5 : make : cause to be : treat as <belittle> <befool> <befriend>
6 : call or dub especially excessively <bedoctor>
7 : affect, afflict, treat, provide, or cover with especially excessively <bedevil> <befog>
So you (or anyone here) need to see what fits best in your context.
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Note added at 21 mins (2009-07-14 17:41:58 GMT)
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be-
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Comment: "Thank you"
19 mins
tornou-se um mote, tornou-se moda.
sug.
2 hrs
Marlene Curtis
United States
United States
Native in English
&
Portuguese
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
Related KudoZ points
:
1973
com epigramas
Golas com epigramas, simplesmente. Não creio que as damas da época usassem lemas em suas golas douradas.
epigrama (m)
n. epigram, letter, witty or ingenious saying, phrase, proverb
Babylon
epigrama (m)
n. epigram, letter, witty or ingenious saying, phrase, proverb
Babylon
Discussion
with golden letters well bemottoed ; her shoes
were ornated in curious devices like unto the
windows of Paul's Church."
http://www.archive.org/stream/trewefeythfullhy00reptrich/tre...