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Portuguese term or phrase:
donatário da capitania
English translation:
donatary captain of ...
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Lindsay Spratt
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donatário da capitania
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This is in a text on 16th-Century maps. Just want to check what the best term is for 'donatório'. It's for UK English. Thanks for your help!
"Não resta dúvida que os planisférios de Desceliers contaram com a expertise dos navegadores e cosmógrafos portugueses que atuavam nos portos da Normandia e da Bretanha na primeira metade do século XVI. Para o traçado da bacia platina, é provável que ele tenha utilizado os mapas do cartógrafo português Gaspar Viegas, integrante da expedição do ***donatário da capitania*** de São Vicente, Martim Afonso de Souza (1530-33)[2]. A representação hiperbólica do Rio da Prata vertebra a região sudeste do continente americano."
"Não resta dúvida que os planisférios de Desceliers contaram com a expertise dos navegadores e cosmógrafos portugueses que atuavam nos portos da Normandia e da Bretanha na primeira metade do século XVI. Para o traçado da bacia platina, é provável que ele tenha utilizado os mapas do cartógrafo português Gaspar Viegas, integrante da expedição do ***donatário da capitania*** de São Vicente, Martim Afonso de Souza (1530-33)[2]. A representação hiperbólica do Rio da Prata vertebra a região sudeste do continente americano."
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | (donatary) captain of Sao Vicente |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 4 +1 | donatário of the captaincy |
Gilmar Fernandes
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Proposed translations
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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(donatary) captain of Sao Vicente
The owner of the captaincy is a captain. See explanation of captaincies in colonial Brazil at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Brazil
While 'donatary' refers to the right by which he acquired the captaincy, it may be tangential to the main point, which is probably why it was left out in two of the examples below.
See the following references:
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804719284...Muriel Nazzari - 1991 - History - 245 pages
Sao Paulo belonged to the **donatary captain** of Sao Vicente until the early eighteenth century. Dote: Dowry. Dote conferido: A dowry brought in a colacao ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_heads_of_Portuguese_India
Governor, Martim Afonso de Sousa, 8 May 1542, 1545, **donatary-captain of São Vicente** f.1534, returned to Portugal. Governor, D. João de Castro, 10 Sep 1545
books.google.com/books?id=cr9PAAAAMAAJ...1920 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
In 1533 he was recalled, and in 1534 made **captain of Sao Vicente**, whose affairs he continued to administer, though he did not again visit it. ...
cachacabossanova.com/usa/historyofcachaca.swf
... OF CACHAÇA Originally from Asia, Sugar Cane was introduced in Brazil around the year 1530 for Martim Affonso de Souza, **the captain of São Vicente.** ...
While 'donatary' refers to the right by which he acquired the captaincy, it may be tangential to the main point, which is probably why it was left out in two of the examples below.
See the following references:
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804719284...Muriel Nazzari - 1991 - History - 245 pages
Sao Paulo belonged to the **donatary captain** of Sao Vicente until the early eighteenth century. Dote: Dowry. Dote conferido: A dowry brought in a colacao ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_heads_of_Portuguese_India
Governor, Martim Afonso de Sousa, 8 May 1542, 1545, **donatary-captain of São Vicente** f.1534, returned to Portugal. Governor, D. João de Castro, 10 Sep 1545
books.google.com/books?id=cr9PAAAAMAAJ...1920 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
In 1533 he was recalled, and in 1534 made **captain of Sao Vicente**, whose affairs he continued to administer, though he did not again visit it. ...
cachacabossanova.com/usa/historyofcachaca.swf
... OF CACHAÇA Originally from Asia, Sugar Cane was introduced in Brazil around the year 1530 for Martim Affonso de Souza, **the captain of São Vicente.** ...
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Comment: "Thanks, Muriel!"
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Gilmar Fernandes
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donatário of the captaincy
I would italicize donatário and leave it in PT with a translator's note with an explanation along these lines (more concise though):
A Donatário, a Portuguese word roughly meaning 'endowed' sometimes anglicized as Donatary, was a private person (often a nobleman) who was bestowed by the Crown with a considerable piece of land, called a donátaria, which was handed over at his discretion, exempt from normal colonial administration through some royal governor etc., so de facto equivalent to a British Lord Proprietor.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatário
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captaincy
A Donatário, a Portuguese word roughly meaning 'endowed' sometimes anglicized as Donatary, was a private person (often a nobleman) who was bestowed by the Crown with a considerable piece of land, called a donátaria, which was handed over at his discretion, exempt from normal colonial administration through some royal governor etc., so de facto equivalent to a British Lord Proprietor.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatário
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captaincy
Peer comment(s):
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Paula Borges
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Thanks Paula :)
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: I don't see the need to leave it in Portuguese when there is an English word for it.
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