Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
en degradación (not the condition)
English translation:
receding
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Christian [email protected]
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Spanish term
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en degradación (not the condition)
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Architecture
Hello, it's the description of the main portal of a church.
"Dota de monumentalidad a la portada principal, desprovista de tímpano, la multiplicidad de arquivoltas de medio punto en degradación - siete en total. "
All the sites that say "in degradation" are Catalan, so I suspect there might be a better, English term. Here's an image:
http://www.larutadelcister.info/en/fotos/doorway-church-san-...
Thanks a lot!
"Dota de monumentalidad a la portada principal, desprovista de tímpano, la multiplicidad de arquivoltas de medio punto en degradación - siete en total. "
All the sites that say "in degradation" are Catalan, so I suspect there might be a better, English term. Here's an image:
http://www.larutadelcister.info/en/fotos/doorway-church-san-...
Thanks a lot!
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | receding |
Christian [email protected]
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| 4 | recessed |
Kenny Barclay
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| 3 +1 | stepped |
patinba
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| 4 | graduated [in size] |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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Change log
Dec 21, 2016 11:23: Mónica Algazi changed "Language pair" from "English to Spanish" to "Spanish to English"
Dec 23, 2016 16:34: Christian [email protected] Created KOG entry
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Christian [email protected]
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receding
Each one is smaller and farther back than the preceding one.
I also like Patinba's suggestion.
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Note added at 2 days5 hrs (2016-12-23 16:34:36 GMT) Post-grading
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¡Gracias, Mariana!
I also like Patinba's suggestion.
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Note added at 2 days5 hrs (2016-12-23 16:34:36 GMT) Post-grading
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¡Gracias, Mariana!
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Kenny Barclay
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Spain
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recessed
a google image search for recessed arch gives results similar to your picture.
As it mentions seven, and as Tobias has mentioned, I understand it to be referring to this.
As it mentions seven, and as Tobias has mentioned, I understand it to be referring to this.
Example sentence:
recessed round archivolts - seven in total
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stepped
Open Access: Contextualizing the Archivolted Portals of Northern ...
https://books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=1443835900
Mickey Abel - 2011 - Art
... on concentrically stepped archivolts around a specifically tympanum-free portal opening have been dismissed as decorative or merely ornamental [Fig.1-1].1 ...
Structural Designs of Gothic Churches and Cathedrals: Earthlore ...
www.elore.com/Gothic/Glossary/structure.htm
Archivolts are sometimes used, with purely decorative intent, even where the extrados of the arch is stepped. Archivolts may be merely painted, in interior ...
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Note added at 11 hrs (2016-12-21 23:14:18 GMT)
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"grada" means step
https://books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=1443835900
Mickey Abel - 2011 - Art
... on concentrically stepped archivolts around a specifically tympanum-free portal opening have been dismissed as decorative or merely ornamental [Fig.1-1].1 ...
Structural Designs of Gothic Churches and Cathedrals: Earthlore ...
www.elore.com/Gothic/Glossary/structure.htm
Archivolts are sometimes used, with purely decorative intent, even where the extrados of the arch is stepped. Archivolts may be merely painted, in interior ...
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Note added at 11 hrs (2016-12-21 23:14:18 GMT)
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"grada" means step
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
United States
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United States
Each translation a gem!
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graduated [in size]
While I couldn't find too many examples, I do think this is the clearest solution.
Examples:
www.hartfordpreservation.org/.../Main-St.-Historic-District... materials, the mass, and the upper stories **with arches graduated in size** that characterize Richardson's best work. At the time it was built it was surrounded ...
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1... segmental arches with cutwaters and piers between arches, these terminate in pyramidal caps on parapet. **Arches graduated in size to centre largest arch**.
nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucSamo-t1-body1-d2-d7-d3.html
Beyond the fact that the curb plate must be the same diameter as the wall plate, the middle arch a little less, and **the other arches graduated smaller**, the workers ...
Not architectural, but the same idea:
www.gospelmessage.net/old-site/1961/t12-61-5.htm
A part of the human ear is a series of some **thousand-minute, but complex arches graduated with exquisite regularity in size and shape**. These may be said ...
Examples:
www.hartfordpreservation.org/.../Main-St.-Historic-District... materials, the mass, and the upper stories **with arches graduated in size** that characterize Richardson's best work. At the time it was built it was surrounded ...
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1... segmental arches with cutwaters and piers between arches, these terminate in pyramidal caps on parapet. **Arches graduated in size to centre largest arch**.
nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucSamo-t1-body1-d2-d7-d3.html
Beyond the fact that the curb plate must be the same diameter as the wall plate, the middle arch a little less, and **the other arches graduated smaller**, the workers ...
Not architectural, but the same idea:
www.gospelmessage.net/old-site/1961/t12-61-5.htm
A part of the human ear is a series of some **thousand-minute, but complex arches graduated with exquisite regularity in size and shape**. These may be said ...
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