Offshoot

Portuguese translation: derivação

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English term or phrase:Offshoot
Portuguese translation:derivação
Entered by: Karen Fabiano

19:06 Aug 8, 2020
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English term or phrase: Offshoot
Fiquei em dúvida do que o termo "offshoot" pode significar nessa sentença. Vi tradução para "ramo/ramificação" e até considerei alguns sinônimos, mas queria ver se alguém tem uma sugestão melhor. Podem ajudar, por favor?

"And it's just an offshoot of what people call the hygiene hypothesis"
Karen Fabiano
Brazil
Local time: 07:41
derivação
Explanation:
No sentido n.º 2:

offshoot (ˈɒfˌʃuːt)
n
1. (Botany) a shoot or branch growing from the main stem of a plant
2. something that develops or derives from a principal source or origin

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/offshoot
Selected response from:

Ana Vozone
Local time: 11:41
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3derivação
Ana Vozone
5mais uma extensão
Nick Taylor
3 +1something that developed from something that already existed
Brent Sørensen
4derivação
Andrea Luri Abe


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
offshoot
something that developed from something that already existed


Explanation:



The definition of offshoot that you need:
• something that has developed from something larger that already existed
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/offshoot

In your case, something that developed from the hygiene hypothesis



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Note added at 6 mins (2020-08-08 19:12:19 GMT)
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The Evolution and Ontogeny of Deep Social Mind and the Social Brain
[…]
I then introduce the cultural intelligence hypothesis, an offshoot of the social intelligence hypothesis, but also a competitor for it in explaining the enhanced cognitive profile of the great apes, and perhaps some other classes of animal.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111946174...

Brent Sørensen
Germany
Local time: 12:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Amir Akbarpour Reihani
4 mins

neutral  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida: EN-PT?
39 mins
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
offshoot
derivação


Explanation:
No sentido n.º 2:

offshoot (ˈɒfˌʃuːt)
n
1. (Botany) a shoot or branch growing from the main stem of a plant
2. something that develops or derives from a principal source or origin

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/offshoot

Ana Vozone
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 216

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
13 mins
  -> Obrigada, Teresa!

agree  Maria da Glória Teixeira
3 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Gloria!

agree  Anastasia Andriani
1 day 12 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Anastasia!
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
offshoot
derivação


Explanation:
Uma sugestão.

Andrea Luri Abe
Peru
Local time: 05:41
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
offshoot
mais uma extensão


Explanation:
mais uma extensão

Nick Taylor
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 258
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