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insisteva

French translation: s'installait

05:21 Jun 6, 2013
Italian to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
Italian term or phrase: insisteva
Da sempre l’umanità ha contribuito a ridefinire la natura e la forma del proprio spazio abitativo trasformando i luoghi ove essa insisteva.

Le sens est clair, je cherche un terme élégant.
Merci pour vos suggestions
Oriana W.
Italy
Local time: 12:38
French translation:s'installait
Explanation:
se fixait, se posait
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Antoine de Bernard
Italy
Local time: 12:38
Grading comment
Merci à tous, j'ai opté pour "se fixait".
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Summary of answers provided
5se fixait
Carole Poirey
4s'installait
Antoine de Bernard
4demeurait
alessandra attu
4prospérait
Chéli Rioboo
3s'imposait
Nathalie Doudet
3s'imposait
Annie Dauvergne
3s'ancrait ou s'implantait
Anita R (X)
3se trouvait
Françoise Vogel


  

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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
s'imposait


Explanation:
une proposition

Nathalie Doudet
France
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Asker: Merci

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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
s'imposait


Explanation:
une suggestion

Annie Dauvergne
Italy
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 32
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Asker: Merci

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
s'installait


Explanation:
se fixait, se posait


Antoine de Bernard
Italy
Local time: 12:38
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
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Merci à tous, j'ai opté pour "se fixait".
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
s'ancrait ou s'implantait


Explanation:
Plus littéraire, peut-être?

Anita R (X)
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Asker: Merci

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
se trouvait


Explanation:
ls lieux où elle se trouvait

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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-06-06 08:44:22 GMT)
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cf. Treccani:
2. Con sign. etimologico, stare sopra, poggiare, premere: sopra la gàlea Del vinto insisti fiera co ’l poplite (Carducci); è parola di uso letter. o poet., ma adoperata anche nel linguaggio tecn. e giur., in frasi come: terreno su cui insiste un fabbricato; costruzione che insiste su un terrapieno (o su un solaio), e sim.


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Note added at 4 hrs (2013-06-06 09:38:46 GMT)
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qu'elle peuplait ?

www.landes-de-lanvaux.com › Accueil › Randonnées‎
Depuis fort longtemps, les hommes peuplent ce territoire préservé.

www.wikigarrigue.info/wakka.php?wiki...show_comments=1‎
20 févr. 2013 – ... au cours des millénaires, les hommes peuplent d'abord les côteaux, les terrasses de ce qui sera plus tard,[...]

www.amazon.fr › ... › Jeunesse › Dictionnaires scolaires - secondaire‎
Les hommes peuplent la Terre depuis des centaines de milliers d'années.

Françoise Vogel
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 24
Notes to answerer
Asker: Merci Françoise, c'est ce que j'avais pensé... mais je me demandais, vu que le terme italien est plus recherché (parola di uso letterario o poetico, come indica la Treccani), s'il n'existe pas quelque chose du même style en français.

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
demeurait


Explanation:
tout simplement?

alessandra attu
Local time: 12:38
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
se fixait


Explanation:
à mon avis

Carole Poirey
Italy
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 32
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Asker: Merci

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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
prospérait


Explanation:
Ppour la nature...un terme un peu plus poétique peut-être.

Chéli Rioboo
France
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 16
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Asker: Merci

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