English translation of "profondeur temporelle" - "how long this (property; benefit,etc) or prerogative has existed"

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113 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Sciences / Non-fiction books
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	profondeur temporelle
Context:	Enfin, la valeur accordée à la profondeur temporelle au moment de dire la jouissance légitime d’un bien ou d’une prérogative est certainement un autre point commun aux trois cas évoqués ici. "Time depth" is often used in a technical sense, but seems somewhat prosaic here. "Depth of time" would work, but does anyone have any other suggestions?
Keywords:	Historical genealogy

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112 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

Time importance / Time length / Temporal length

112 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

Time depth

My references:

http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=profondeur+temporelle&index=frr&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs

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http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/la+profondeur+temporelle.html

113 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

the prospective time (of enjoyment)?

My comment:

It would have been interesting to know about the other two cases. I think "profondeur temporelle" may refer to the length of time you can expect to enjoy something. The other suggestions go in the opposite direction ( the historical dimension), but without more context, it's difficult to tell which interpretation is right.

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113 months ago

wrote:

Or: time expectancy

113 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

time deep dimension

113 months ago

RTtranslations wrote:

how long this (property; benefit,etc) or prerogative has existed

My comment:

I think the concept of length of time rather than depth is more applicable in this case