DLyons Jun 22, 2013:

@all There's not a lot of context here and there are bound to be different ideas about what fits best. We're all just trying to help as best we can. The sun will rise tomorrow in any case - as usual in Ireland, that will be pallidly.

Billh Jun 22, 2013:

Of course I did But perhaps it would be best to look up the word on google translator and no doubt that will provide the right answer. Who needs professional translators when we have Google?

Simply to say that "discreto = moderate
"discrete" doesn't apply in this context"

simply strikes me as a totally dogmatic and unfounded comment. It could easily mean discrete and common sense suggests that it does. I really don't know what it actually means but I am not going to say baldly that it must mean this without any foundation for the statement.

Joseph Tein Jun 22, 2013:

Nonsense My apologies to everyone for posting nonsense.

Billh ... did you look at definition #4 in the DRAE? It follows right after #3 ... just below it, in fact. Let me post it here for you:

4. adj. Moderado, sin exceso.

You should write directly to the RAE and inform them that their fourth definition is nonsense.

Also when I look up "moderado" in the online Reverso dictionary and in Wordreference, I get a slightly different translation: "modest" ... but I think this is close enough to moderate, although some might interpret it as "slight".

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=disc...

http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/discreto (see meaning #3)

Billh Jun 22, 2013:

Discrete - Discreto In a technical sense, as here, discreto likely means discrete, also in the technical sense.

It almost certainly does not mean 'moderate'. To say so is nonsense.

RAE
3. adj. Separado, distinto.

If we are to live by Google, then jolly well use Google translator and then see how long you survive as a translator. And D Lyons summed it up at the outset.

Joseph Tein Jun 22, 2013:

moderate I find around 5,000 hits in google for "moderate pallor". One hit for "moderate skin pallor".

Joseph Tein Jun 22, 2013:

discreto = moderate "discrete" doesn't apply in this context

DLyons Jun 22, 2013:

@Linda Yes, I think either is possible so I didn't suggest an answer. "Slight" is just my best guess in the limited context.

Linda Grabner Jun 22, 2013:

@DLyons I found a few sites via google that referred to discrete pallor, so it could also be referring to *localized* or distinct patches of pallor, as you noted in the case of rash outbreaks, could it not?

DLyons Jun 22, 2013:

I'd go for moderate/slight. But

Discreto: Se aplica a las enfermedades eruptivas, por ejemplo las viruelas, cuando los granos, manchas, etc., están muy separados entre sí.