Glossary entry (derived from question below)
anglais term
a prickle
Il s'agit d'une série de "trivia points"... le plus haut sommet est... la distance terre lune est de...
Pour les porcupines, c'est facile, au Canada c'est un porc-épic (en Europe c'est un hérisson - cousins mais pas exactement pareils), mais c'est le "prickle" qui me cause problème.
J'ai cherché Google, Termium, GDT, les dictionnaires Web (Larousse, Mediaco, Word Reference et autres) mais personne n'a un terme dans ce sens-ci.
Une "pique" me semble la meilleure traduction, mais il y a peut-être, quelque part, une "vraie" traduction.
| 4 +3 | troupeau |
kashew
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| 4 | un groupe / une famille |
FX Fraipont (X)
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| 4 | un déploiement |
Bernard Moret
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PRO (1): cc in nyc
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Proposed translations
troupeau
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“Par une froide journée d’hiver, un troupeau de porcs-épics s’était mis en groupe serré pour se garantir mutuellement contre la gelée par leur propre chaleur. ..."
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Ricardy Ricot
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enrico paoletti
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un groupe / une famille
Ensuite les porcs-epics sont des animaux solitaires.. donc l'idée d'un groupe est assez saugrenu...
"North American Porcupine - Erethizon dorsatum - NatureWorks
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/porcupine.htm
Porcupine The common porcupine is a solitary animal, although it may den with other porcupines in the winter. It makes its den in caves, decaying logs and ...
Porcupine
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/journey/porcupine.htm
Porcupines are solitary animals and travel alone. Food. Porcupines eat seeds, fruit, leaves, grasses, dandelions, twigs and aquatic plants in the summer.
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hérisson :
http://s1.e-monsite.com/2009/01/14/01/mini2-67895618herisson...
porc-épic:
http://recit.csenergie.qc.ca/cl_esimard/IMG/jpg/le_porc-epic...
| solitaire et pourtant ... prickle apparaît bien dans "collective nouns" pour porcupine et aussi sous hedgehog (a array - shouldn't that be an array? - of hedgehogs (prickle)) http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm Pour les différences entre les hérissons et les porcs-épics, hérisson Québec (sans blague, ça existe) dit qu'ils sont différents, mais d'autres sites disent qu'ils sont de la même espèce ... il faut dire que je n'en ai jamais approché un de très près ;-) |
France
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Native in: français 
Works in: anglais vers français
un déploiement
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http://londrescalling.canalblog.com/archives/2011/09/02/2129...
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Note added at 56 minutes (2012-11-26 20:12:55 GMT)
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a pod of dolphins/whales une gousse de dauphins/baleines
a clutch of chickens une poignée de poules
a gaggle of geese un troupeau d'oies
an array of hedgehogs un déploiement de hérissons
a mischief of mice une bêtise de souris
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FX Fraipont (X)
: ce sont des traductions littérales : une école (school) de thons, un meurtre (murder) de corneilles , a bask of crocodiles : un 'se chauffer au soleil' de crocodiles.....
12 minutes
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Discussion
For the porcupine collective noun, I propose "un pique-aiguilles" - but only because that's what I'd like it to be! :)
I don't think you should be looking for a translation of 'prickle' at all, but rather, seeking to find if there is a specific collective noun for porc-épics in FR? As in many such cases, it may just be that no equivalent collective noun exists.
When looking for them in EN, I entered a few examples (like "gaggle / skein of geese", "pride of lions" etc.) into Google with "collective noun", which came up with several resources; I am unaware of similar charming collective nouns in FR, so you may find you have an uphill struggle with this one ;-)