English translation of "detto febè" - "known as Febè"

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137 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	detto febè
Context:	Nella primavera del 1916 con un aereo, per quell'epoca agile, veloce e bene armato, il Nieuport 13 (detto febè) può iniziare una caccia attiva e proficua.

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137 months ago

Giorgio Vellani wrote:

known as / called

137 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

known as FB

My comment:

This is my guess, that it's the author's way of writing the two letters FB.

My references:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLOpMvCRAI

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137 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

I agree.

137 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

known as Febè

My comment:

The nearest I could find is to bebè, though there are many adverts about it: http://www.finn.it/regia/html/grande_guerra.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuport, but febè also seems to have existed

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137 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

I found out from another source that this was a typo. The plane was actually nicknamed "bébé" and I was told that is was not a Nieuport 13, but actually the 11 model.

137 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

In fact I said that I found references were to Bebè, rather than febè, and most probably it was the Nieuport 11, not 13, as the 11 th and 28th are frequently mentioned even in the sources, even if they did not come out well. Tks.

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