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ACADIAN [3 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

A descendant of the French settlers of Acadia, the French colony on the Atlantic coast of North America in what is now the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Petrography
  • Geology
DEF

North American provincial series: Middle Cambrian (above Georgian, below Postdamian).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
DEF

Étage du Cambrien moyen.

OBS

Cambrien moyen de la Province atlantique en Amérique du Nord (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Nouvelle-Écosse, l'est du Massachusetts).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cronología
  • Petrografía
  • Geología
DEF

Piso estratigráfico de la provincia atlántica, perteneciente al período cámbrico medio; cronológicamente sigue al georgiense y precede al potsdamiense, lo cual permite atribuirle unos 555 millones de años [...]

OBS

Nombre derivado de Acadia, región oriental de Canadá.

OBS

Pese a que la fuente citada escribe los nombres de los períodos geológicos con minúscula, el Diccionario de dudas de la Real Academia Española señala que tales sustantivos deben escribirse con mayúscula.

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Record 3 1993-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A dialect of French spoken by Acadians.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Parler franco-canadien utilisé par les Acadiens. Parlé par environ 35% de la population du Nouveau-Brunswick et par quelques communautés de Nouvelle-Écosse, l'acadien a conservé de nombreux termes du français des XVe et XVIe siècles.

Spanish

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