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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

100% Frantoio

English translation:

100% Frantoio variety

Added to glossary by janepar
Feb 21, 2011 16:15
13 yrs ago
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Italian term

100% Frantoio

Italian to English Other Food & Drink Olive oil
This is part of a title sentence describing an olive oil.

Azienda --------, Olio extravergine di oliva ----------, 100% Frantoio

I wondered whether to use the term 'cold-pressed' in the sense of '100% cold-pressed oil'. This is part of a review of olive oils for use in restaurants. Many thanks for your suggestions.

Jane
Proposed translations (English)
4 +6 100% Frantoio variety
3 +3 100% from the press
3 100% traditionally made
3 100% cold pressed virgin olive oil
References
for your records

Discussion

zerlina Feb 23, 2011:
riprendo il purtroppo ho le gote leggermente arrossate e dico che è da balordi chiamare una varietà di olive così. Ciao cara!:-)
Shera Lyn Parpia Feb 22, 2011:
purtroppo... ci sono tante varietà di olive, e uno di questi si chiama così.... non ci sarebbe tanta confusione se si trattasse della varietà "mission" o "leccina", ecc, ma questa varietà, e soprattutto nella lingua italiana, confonde!
zerlina Feb 22, 2011:
@Shera Lyn avrai ragione, fatto sta che se parli di frantoio con gente 'normale', non di mestiere, per 'frantoio' pensano a un altra cosa.
philgoddard Feb 22, 2011:
It's not Italian... It's universal. Even some of the best answerers on KudoZ do it.
Tom in London Feb 22, 2011:
the capital F Or the capital F could simply be part of an Italian habit of capitalising things that don't need to be capitalised. I come across that all the time.
zerlina Feb 21, 2011:
frantoio http://www.wordreference.com/definizione/frantoio.
It's the machinery. The capital F means that someone uses the word, with it's good old 'genuine' image, as a brand name.
philgoddard Feb 21, 2011:
http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/frantoio
But some of the websites I looked at said that Frantoio was a variety of olive. Are they wrong, or are both true? The capital F seems to imply that it's the name of a variety.

Proposed translations

+6
9 mins
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100% Frantoio variety

see:

Frantoio
Frantoio is the most noted olive oil variety of Tuscany, Italy, and one of the most highly acclaimed oil varieties in the world. It is grown commercially in ...
www.oliveaustralia.com.au/...Olive.../Frantoio/frantoio.htm...

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Note added at 10 mins (2011-02-21 16:26:32 GMT)
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single frantoio variety

Fattoria Casamora: Extra virgin olive oil -Regale Frantoio-
REGALE Extra virgin olive oil from single variety stoned olives. Regale Frantoio variety. The bouquet has a medium to strong scent of olive and olive leaf. ...
www.casamora.it/eng/oli/extravergine_regale.html
Peer comment(s):
agree Sarah Jane Webb
8 mins
Thanks!
agree philgoddard : I think it must be this.
9 mins
Thank you.
agree Joel Schaefer : Absolutely. At this very moment I have a bottle of Frantoio olive oil in my kitchen, it's the best oil I've found so far in Argentina. Piccante e un po' amaro.
20 mins
Grazie :)
agree jane mg
35 mins
Thanks.
agree Lorraine Buckley (X)
1 hr
Thank you.
neutral zerlina : sorry, but the 'frantoio' is the press, the oil mill, that someone uses it as a proper name is his business, but there is certainly a translation for the term . http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/frantoio;ragà, mi deludete:-)
6 hrs
Take a look here http://www.ars-alimentaria.it/schedaProdotto.do?idProdotto=2...
agree Yvonne Gallagher
8 hrs
Thanks :)
neutral Lara Barnett : I think reference would need to be made that Frantoio is the pressing machine. If this is referring to Frantoio as a Trademark I think "variety" may not be the best term there is.
22 hrs
see page 6 here: http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/2161/17346.pdf
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This is indeed the right answer for my translation and thank you all for the discussion which I have thoroughly enjoyed. My client wrote: E sia la varietà dell'oliva chiamata anche cultivar sia il luogo dove si frange cioè dove si lavora l'oliva. In questo caso, quando c'è la percentuale è il nome dell'oliva."
12 mins

100% traditionally made

They may mean that it all comes from a traditional oil press, there is no addition of industrial oil, it is a homemade product
Note from asker:
Thanks very much. Cynthia. I found out as you see above that Frantoio in this context refers to the variety of olive and not the press.
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+3
4 mins

100% from the press

I think your own idea is OK but here's an alternative

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Note added at 22 mins (2011-02-21 16:38:31 GMT)
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Quote "Today, the vast majority of extra virgin olive oil is made in centrifuges" so your text is trying to say that theirs isn't made that way.
Note from asker:
Thanks Tom for your suggestion. I did manage to find out in the end as you see above that the Frantoio refers to the cultivar.
Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : Surely all oil is pressed?
13 mins
yes - see this interesing link http://tinyurl.com/4bwqcxf
agree R.C. (X) : http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olio_di_oliva - some oil is made out of the residues of the pressing with solvents
3 hrs
thx
agree potra : Yes, in the old times it was stone milled (macina a pietra), from il frantoio means that it is the first press oil, not second, third press as in 'olio di sansa' etc. I concur with Raffaella
6 hrs
thx
agree dandamesh
17 hrs
thanks danda
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19 hrs

100% cold pressed virgin olive oil

My guess is that you are right here: they are probably referring to the process rather than the varietal. While the cultivar Frantoio is native to Tuscany, it is grown throughout Italy, but also in other parts of the world. You may have to check with the client on this one though as it isn't clear.

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Note added at 1 day22 hrs (2011-02-23 14:24:18 GMT) Post-grading
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You're welcome!
Reference:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantoio_%28olivo%29

Note from asker:
Hi! This answer would be absolutely right in a different context (see explanation from my client above) so in a sense it could also be entered in the glossary. Thanks so much!
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Reference comments

26 mins
Reference:

for your records

hope it helps
Reference:

http://www.oliveoilsource.com/page/home

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