Sep 2, 2019 13:47
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Spanish term
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Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English
Secretaria de la PREFECTURA
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Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs
Old style Venezuelan birth certificate
La suscrita, Secretaria de la PREFECTURA del Distrito de San Carlos del Estado de Ojedes, CERTIFICA:
Que en el libro de registro civil de nacimientos archivado en este despacho correspondiente al año....
I've never seen PREFECTURA used to describe a location in Venezuela. This birth certificate is from 1939 so I'm wondering if perhaps Venezuela used to have jurisdictional prefectures back then. How should I translate PREFECTURA?
Que en el libro de registro civil de nacimientos archivado en este despacho correspondiente al año....
I've never seen PREFECTURA used to describe a location in Venezuela. This birth certificate is from 1939 so I'm wondering if perhaps Venezuela used to have jurisdictional prefectures back then. How should I translate PREFECTURA?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +4 | prefecture |
Gareth Rhys-Jones López
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| 3 -1 | Registry of the (US) District Commissioner's or Marshal's Office |
Adrian MM.
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Proposed translations
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Gareth Rhys-Jones López
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Native in: English (Variant: British) 
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prefecture
I'd go for prefecture.
Example sentence:
... government: municipalities and prefectures. Despite having the lowest per capita GDP in South America, Bolivia has a relatively large public sector...
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
: I think anything else would be wrong.
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Andy Davis
: I'd translate it directly as Prefecture Secretariat and not try to get clever with any equivalents. We've got prefectures in Japan and there used to be prefectures in Brazil I believe. They're the same as counties (UK), states (US) aut. communites (ES).
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neilmac
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Adrian MM.
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
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Spanish term (edited):
Secretaria de la PREFECTURA del Distrito
Registry of the (US) District Commissioner's or Marshal's Office
This is Venezuela in 1939 and not a British school prefects' room or den cf. Prefectura de la Policía is not a Police Prefecture, but an HQ.
IATE's original 'translation': Prefecture.
IATE's original 'translation': Prefecture.
Example sentence:
Ven > Departamento Libertador must be a province or county, and the prefecture, like in France, is the county seat
Peer comment(s):
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AllegroTrans
: Since this is not in the US, this is misleading, even if there is a vague equivalence; I would definitely stick to "prefecture" as others (above) have said
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Then, by that reasoning, use Police Prefecture for Prefectura de la Policía. BTW, 'Regional Commissioner' is a back-translation for the French term of Prefect used by both the ECJ in Lux and ECtHR in Strasbourg.
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