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Abstract

In direct continuity with a previous essay on the study of a selection of attributes referred to the Christian God (Ferro, Romoli 2013), the authors analyze a number of epithets and attributes addressed to the Mother of God or defining her qualities. These words are frequently used in medieval Eastern Slavic literature, they are usually stated in the most authoritative dictionaries of Old and Church Slavonic languages, and remain generally unchanged in modern Russian. Within the project of a trilingual (Church Slavonic-Russian-Italian) lexicon, the essay aims to show how the translation of religious terms goes beyond linguistics, as the question of correspondence or lack of correspondence in concepts and contexts of reference often arises. Since general dictionaries frequently fail to provide satisfactory solutions, it is necessary to go back to the origins, semantics and use of the terms through the systematic use of different types of dictionaries. In addition, in order to provide a proper Italian translation, the use of dictionaries of the Italian language is also fundamental.

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Title
Appellativi e attributi della Madre di Dio. Per un lexicon slavo ecclesiastico-russo-italiano dei termini religiosi
Author
Ferro, Maria Chiara; Romoli, Francesca
Pages
99-122,350
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
1824761X
e-ISSN
18247601
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1652172256
Copyright
Copyright Firenze University Press 2014