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ROMANCE [23 records]

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Record 1 2022-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A person who creates a false online identity in the hopes of luring people into romantic relationships.

CONT

Romance scammers create fake profiles on dating sites and apps, or contact their targets through popular social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, or Google Hangouts. The scammers strike up a relationship with their targets to build their trust, sometimes talking or chatting several times a day. Then, they make up a story and ask for money.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Depuis plusieurs années la fraude sentimentale se développe sur les réseaux sociaux et frappe les internautes à la recherche de l'amour. Les «arnacoeurs» opèrent généralement depuis des localisations lointaines pour compliquer la recherche et la sanction des fraudeurs. Généralement situés en Afrique [du] Nord ou de l'Ouest, de véritables réseaux d'escrocs séduisent des Européens, des Canadiens ou des Américains et par un jeu de manipulation insidieux, leur extorquent des sommes colossales.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

A romance scam is when a new love interest tricks you into falling for them when they really just want your money. Romance scams start in a few different ways, usually online. For example, you may receive a friend request, follower request, or direct message on social media, or maybe the connection happens on a dating app. Some romance scammers will even email or text you directly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

La fraude sentimentale, aussi appelée «arnaque amoureuse», est un stratagème où le fraudeur entre en contact avec sa victime par l'entremise des médias sociaux ou des sites de rencontres. Il tente ensuite de nouer une relation avec elle dans le but ultime de lui soutirer de l'argent.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims
CONT

All Occitan speakers now use French as their official and cultural language, but their local dialects remain lively and, across most of the area, remarkably homogeneous.

OBS

Occitan is the modern name given by linguists to the group of dialects spoken by some 12,000,000 -14,000,000 people in the south of France (or about one-fourth of the whole French population) ... The name Occitan derives from the name of the area Occitanie (formed on the model of Aquitania). The medieval language is often called langue d’oc ...

OBS

The term appears under "Minor Languages", a sub-heading of "Romance Languages".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons
DEF

Qui parle l'occitan [...]

OBS

L'occitan : dénomination moderne et exacte, qui a remplacé l'ancienne dénomination équivoque de provençal (au sens large) et qui désigne l'ensemble des dialectes (ou des langues) que l'on parle ou que l'on parlait dans la partie méridionale du domaine gallo-roman [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-03-04

English

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

Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Republic of Moldova.

French

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

Langue romane parlée principalement en Roumanie et en République de Moldavie.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-02-26

English

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

A Romance language spoken in Portugal, Brazil and a few countries of Africa.

French

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

Langue romane parlée au Portugal, au Brésil et dans quelques pays d'Afrique.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • IT Security
DEF

A logic bomb to be activated at a predetermined time.

CONT

Killer programs have names that science-fiction romance reporters love. If the program is set to activate after a certain time, it is called a "time bomb" or, if activated by a given event, it is called a "logic bomb".

CONT

A time bomb waits for a specific date, then erases your hard disk. Murderous when combined with a Trojan horse delivery mechanism. You run a useful program, and the time bomb installs itself into the system on the hard disk. It goes off months later (after you have forgotten which program could have served as the horse).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Bombe logique destinée à être activée à un instant prédéfini.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec "bombe logique".

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising
CONT

His publicity romance with Miss XXX boomeranged unexpectedly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Publicité
CONT

Son idylle publicitaire avec Mlle XXX a eu un choc en retour inattendu.

Spanish

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Record 8 2009-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Language (General)
CONT

The Language Assistant reports directly to the Section Chief, provides language related support and library management and maintenance services for the Romance Languages and General Multilingual Division.

OBS

language assistant: Public Works and Government Services Canada

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
DEF

A movie genre whose action takes place on a train or trains.

OBS

The motion of a train was, and I am told still can be, aphrodisiac. "Brief Encounter" conjured romance from a station tearoom. In its wake came a rush of rail movies, from North by Northwest to Murder on the Orient Express.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Genre cinématographique dont l'action se déroule en partie ou majoritairement à bord d'un train.

OBS

La recherche n'a pas permis de trouver d'équivalent français officiel pour l'expression anglaise «rail movie». On se contente généralement de citer cet anglicisme.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-11-14

English

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

A Romance language, the language of Spain, standard also in most of Latin America except Brazil.

Key term(s)
  • Spanish language

French

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

Langue romane parlée principalement en Espagne et en Amérique latine.

Key term(s)
  • langue espagnole

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicolingüística, sociolingüística y etnolingüística
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Record 11 2001-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Drafting and Tools
  • Plans and Specifications (Construction)
CONT

Romance of 12th Century, devoted to St Pierre de Faye. Frontage of inspiration saintongeaise. Tympanum, single in Périgord, carved of a Christ in majesty which encensent two angels. Heavy bell-tower barlong.

CONT

The following generation, who lighten the vaults even more, ventured with what will be the definitive layout for Gothic vaulting in the 1200’s: the rectangular span or the "barlong" plan. This is to say that they widened the nave - it’s 16,40 metres at Chartres - without excessively spacing the spring all along the nave.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin architectural et instruments
  • Devis, cahiers des charges et plans (Construction)
DEF

Se dit d'une partie de construction ou de plan dont la longueur est perpendiculaire à l'axe de l'ensemble qui comprend cette partie.

CONT

Une voûte barlongue désigne parfois une voûte dont le plus grand axe est perpendiculaire à l'axe général de l'édifice.

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-08-11

English

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

Romance(adj.) : of any of the languages descended from Latin.

French

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

L'amertume à l'égard de la France [...] est particulièrement perceptible parmi les nations du Sud, notamment latinophones.

Spanish

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Record 13 1996-10-25

English

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

Romance language of the Rhaetian group spoken in northern Italy and Switzerland, primarily in the Rhine Valley in the Swiss canton of Graubunden(Grison).

French

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

Langue romane du groupe rhéto-roman, parlée en Suisse dans le canton des Grisons. C'est, depuis 1937, la quatrième langue officielle de la Suisse.

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-10-25

English

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

Group of Romance dialects spoken in Switzerland and northern Italy.

French

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

Groupe de dialectes romans parlés en Suisse orientale et dans le nord de l'Italie.

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-07-02

English

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

The non-spoken form of non-Classical Latin from which originated the Romance group of languages.

French

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

La forme écrite du latin non classique à partir duquel descendent les différents groupes de langues romanes.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-03-08

English

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

A Romance language spoken by Sefardic Jews in the Balkans, the Near East, North Africa, Greece and Turkey. It is a very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed with Hebrew elements and is usually written in the Hebrew script.

French

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

Langue romane d'origine espagnole, parlée par les descendants des Juifs expulsés d'Espagne en 1492 (Séfarades) dans les Balkans, au Moyen-Orient, en Afrique du Nord, en Grèce, en Turquie. Le ladino s'écrit le plus souvent en caractères hébraïques.

Spanish

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Record 17 1996-02-09

English

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

The Romance language of medieval southern France; it developed into Modern Provencal. It is spoken in Languedoc which refers to a linguistic and political region of the southern Massif Central in France.

French

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

Dialecte parlé en Languedoc. Il regroupe un grand nombre de parlers des Cévennes, du Rouergue, de la région de Toulouse et de celle d'Albi.

Spanish

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Record 18 1995-10-12

English

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

A Romance speech of the area between the Garonne river and the Pyrenees sometimes classified as a dialect of Provençal, but more closely allied to Aragonese and Catalan. It is also a variant of Occitan and is distinguished by strong Basque influence.

French

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

Dialecte de langue d'oc parlé au sud-ouest de la Garonne. Il présente des traits particuliers qui en font presque une langue à part dans le domaine occitan.

Spanish

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Record 19 1995-07-30

English

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

A Romance language spoken on the Italian-ruled island of Sardinia. It is most similar to Vulgar Latin of all the modern Romance languages.

French

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

Langue romane parlée en Sardaigne. C'est la langue qui est restée la plus proche du latin vulgaire.

Spanish

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Record 20 1993-08-23

English

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

A Romance language spoken in France, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and in areas colonized after 1500 by France.

French

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

Langue romane parlée principalement en France, au Canada, en Belgique et en Suisse.

Spanish

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Record 21 1993-07-02

English

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

A Romance language closely related to Provençal, spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, southern France and Western Sardinia. It is most closely related to the Occitan language of southern France and to Spanish, but it is clearly distinct from both.

French

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

Langue parlée principalement en Catalogne (Espagne) et dans le Roussillon (France) par environ 5 millions de locuteurs. Il représente un état de langue intermédiaire entre le castillan et l'occitan.

Spanish

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Record 22 1983-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

A person skilled or informed in Romance languages or philology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

Linguiste, philologue qui étudie les langues romanes.

Spanish

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Record 23 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
OBS

After a series of adventures worthy of a swashbuckling romance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
OBS

après une série d'aventure dignes d'un roman de cape et d' épée

Spanish

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