Covenant - What is the Portuguese translation? Portuguese translators help legal Portuguese translators with the translation of Covenant

Conges terminology question

248 months ago

Isabel Loução (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Portuguese
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Covenant
Context:	law
Keywords:	-

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248 months ago

Isabel Ruivo wrote:

AlianÃ§a

My comment:

The Ark of the Covenant =
A Arca da AlianÃ§a

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248 months ago

Isabel Ruivo wrote:

convênio, pacto

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Conforme Dicionário Oxford escolar.

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248 months ago

Isabel Ruivo wrote:

declaração, acordo, pacto, convenção, contrato

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Vem do latim "convenire" (convir, vir junto). Veja as possibilidades que dá o Webster's:

covenant (kuve nent)
n.
1 a binding and solemn agreement to do or keep from doing a specified thing; compact
2 an agreement among members of a church to defend and maintain its doctrines, polity, and faith
3 [C-] an agreement of Presbyterians in Scotland in 1638 to oppose episcopacy: also called National Covenant
4 [C-] an agreement between the parliaments of Scotland and England in 1643 to extend and preserve Presbyterianism: also called Solemn League and Covenant
5 Law a) a formal, sealed contract b) a clause of such a contract c) a suit for damages for violation of such a contract
6 Theol. the promise made by God to man, as recorded in the Bible
vt.
to promise by a covenant
vi.
to make a covenant
covenantal (-nant'l)
adj.

Etymology
[OFr, agreement, orig., prp. of covenir < L convenire: see convene]

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