https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-portuguese/other/6856739-offshoot.html

Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Offshoot

Portuguese translation:

derivação

Added to glossary by Karen Fabiano
Aug 8, 2020 19:06
3 yrs ago
38 viewers *
English term

Offshoot

English to Portuguese Science Other
Fiquei em dúvida do que o termo "offshoot" pode significar nessa sentença. Vi tradução para "ramo/ramificação" e até considerei alguns sinônimos, mas queria ver se alguém tem uma sugestão melhor. Podem ajudar, por favor?

"And it's just an offshoot of what people call the hygiene hypothesis"
Change log

Aug 8, 2020 19:19: Tony M changed "Language pair" from "English" to "English to Portuguese"

Proposed translations

+3
30 mins
Selected

derivação

No sentido n.º 2:

offshoot (ˈɒfˌʃuːt)
n
1. (Botany) a shoot or branch growing from the main stem of a plant
2. something that develops or derives from a principal source or origin

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/offshoot
Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
13 mins
Obrigada, Teresa!
agree Maria da Glória Teixeira
3 hrs
Obrigada, Gloria!
agree Anastasia Andriani
1 day 12 hrs
Obrigada, Anastasia!
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
4 mins

something that developed from something that already existed




The definition of offshoot that you need:
• something that has developed from something larger that already existed
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/offshoot

In your case, something that developed from the hygiene hypothesis



--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 6 mins (2020-08-08 19:12:19 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

The Evolution and Ontogeny of Deep Social Mind and the Social Brain
[…]
I then introduce the cultural intelligence hypothesis, an offshoot of the social intelligence hypothesis, but also a competitor for it in explaining the enhanced cognitive profile of the great apes, and perhaps some other classes of animal.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111946174...
Peer comment(s):

agree Amir Akbarpour Reihani
4 mins
neutral Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida : EN-PT?
39 mins
The category was changed after I answered the question
Something went wrong...
30 mins

derivação

Uma sugestão.
Something went wrong...
16 hrs

mais uma extensão

mais uma extensão
Something went wrong...