Latin lover

Turkish translation: latin aşık

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English term or phrase:Latin lover
Turkish translation:latin aşık
Entered by: SeiTT

08:17 Dec 8, 2012
English to Turkish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Historical Stereotypes
English term or phrase: Latin lover
Greetings,

Please see this website:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/culture/latin-lovers

My sentence for translation:
The Latin lover is a stereotype that stretches back for centuries.

Best wishes, and many thanks,

Simon
SeiTT
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:53
latin aşık
Explanation:
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Local time: 23:53
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Many thanks, super!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3latin aşık
[Removed] (X)
5Latin/hispanik sevgili
Aziz Kural
5erkek güzeli
Ali Bayraktar
4Latin erkeği
Raffi Jamgocyan


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
latin lover
Latin erkeği


Explanation:
to translate literally would be a Latin aşık, but in Turkish we tend to talk about men in geneal, for the steorotype we use the nations instead of Latin, we say İtalyan erkekleri, Fransız erkekleri, İspanyo erkekleri in order to steorotype

Raffi Jamgocyan
Türkiye
Local time: 23:53
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Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
latin lover
latin aşık


Explanation:
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[Removed] (X)
Local time: 23:53
Native speaker of: Turkish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Many thanks, super!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ATIL KAYHAN: The word "lover" does not have any gender attached to it even though the text seems to talk more about men than women.
22 mins
  -> agree, similarly in Turkish

agree  Salih YILDIRIM
6 hrs
  -> teşekkür

agree  Gülnur Seyhanoğlu
11 hrs
  -> teşekkür ederim :-)
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
latin lover
Latin/hispanik sevgili


Explanation:
Latin veya hispanik sevgili

Aziz Kural
Türkiye
Local time: 23:53
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
latin lover
erkek güzeli


Explanation:
I think the word "latin lover" means "man of beauty" here.
So my suggestion will be in that direction.

Ali Bayraktar
Türkiye
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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