Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

cantorship

Portuguese translation:

escritório do precentor

Added to glossary by Marlene Curtis
May 20, 2013 17:25
10 yrs ago
English term

cantorship

English to Portuguese Art/Literary Tourism & Travel
A place that runs a cantorship

PTBR only, pls
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Change log

May 26, 2013 10:34: Marlene Curtis changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/121749">tania nogueira's</a> old entry - "cantorship"" to ""escritório do precentor""

Discussion

tania nogueira (asker) May 20, 2013:
yes... it's part of one of the institutes ran by a museum in Jewish heritage
Tiago Moita (X) May 20, 2013:
Is it related to Jewish singing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_(church)

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escritório do precentor

cantor
s. precentor, cantor das preces na sinagoga; chantre, dirigente de coro de igreja .

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Probably it stands for precentor, but apparently the word is omitted by Dr. Murray from the 4 H.E.D.' D. M. R. \Cantorship, the office of a precentor, is in the ..

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Peer comment(s):

neutral Tiago Moita (X) : What a stupid question...you're right, of course you can! I suppose I was experiencing some cognitive dissonance. I was interpreting "run" as in "to run an internship program". I thought maybe there could be something as a cantorship in that sense.
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Absolutely! To run is a synonym of to manage, to administer. gerenciar ... gerenciar, manage, direct, run, administrate/However, it would be impossible " to run a position" .
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posição de precentor, função de precentor

Diana Schwabacher
www.ralysite.com.br/www...com.../Familha_schwabacher_1870_a...
uma personalidade notável na história da comunidade judia de Odessa. Durante décadas Nissan Minkovsky ocupou a posição de precentor da sinagoga de ...
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agree Tiago Moita (X)
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Obrigado!
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cantor de sinagoga

Nas congregações judaicas, o chazan ou cantor é o membro responsável por conduzir os serviços diários religiosos da sinagoga e comandar as preces e os cânticos litúrgicos. O cantor desempenha seu papel ocupando uma posição destacada na sinagoga, semelhante a um púlpito (veja em http://www.chabad.org.br/biblioteca/artigos/sinagoga/home.ht...
Example sentence:

He was the congregation’s chazan (cantor). This is where the family’s cantorship comes from (http://www.centropa.org/biography/jozsef-faludi)

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