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pidvor

English translation: church porch

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Romanian term or phrase:pidvor
English translation:church porch
Entered by: adinag

10:03 Feb 27, 2009
Romanian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture / descriere biserici
Romanian term or phrase: pidvor
Înălţată înainte de 1769, în locul unui lăcaş de lemn distrus în urma unui incendiu, biserica cu hramul Sf. Arhangheli are un plan dreptunghiular cu absidă poligonală. În secolul al XIX-lea, pe latura de sud, a fost adăugată o prispă, iar în 1939 un pridvor. Cândva la cumpăna veacurilor XVIII-XIX nava a fost lărgită spre vest. Pictura a fost realizată în două etape,
adinag
Local time: 19:19
church porch
Explanation:
pentru aceasta expresie aceasta ar fi traducerea
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alexandrub
Romania
Local time: 19:19
Grading comment
multumesc :)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4church porch
alexandrub
4Portico
Midland Productions
4stoop
Anca Nitu


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
church porch


Explanation:
pentru aceasta expresie aceasta ar fi traducerea

alexandrub
Romania
Local time: 19:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
multumesc :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bogdan Burghelea
4 hrs
  -> multumesc mult
agree  Cristina Monica Loşonţi
4 hrs
  -> mutumesc frumos
agree  Iosif JUHASZ
6 hrs
  -> multumesc
agree  Tradeuro Language Services
4 days
  -> thanks
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Portico


Explanation:
Cred ca este termenul mai literar, mai sobru.

por-ti-co (pôr'ti koh , pohr'-) n. pl. <-coes, -cos>
1. a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usu. attached to a building, as a porch.

De asemenea
stoop [2] (stuep) n. 1. a raised platform or porch, esp. a small
porch with steps, at the entrance of a house.

(Random House Webster)

Stoop = vernada, pridvor (Everest Dictionary).

Midland Productions
Romania
Local time: 19:19
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Native speaker of: Romanian
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
stoop


Explanation:
aici spre a-l deosebi de "prispa" = porch


Anca Nitu
Local time: 12:19
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 23
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