I'm translating an article on grapes and vine growing in which the various species are classified as "con attitudine uvifera", "con scarsa attitudine uvifera" e "priva di attitudine uvifera". Does anyone have any idea how I could translate those terms? Thanks, Sarah.
Alessandra Renna: 1:00pm Sep 10, 2007: Are they species of grapes? It sounds strange. A grape with no "attitudine uvifera"!!! May it be "vinifera"? Alessandra Renna: 1:02pm Sep 10, 2007: I meant a species of grapes, naturally potra: 1:52pm Sep 10, 2007: more context is needed
Umberto Cassano: 2:51pm Sep 10, 2007: More context would help us indeed Sarah Gregg: 6:20am Sep 11, 2007: You are all quite right, I should have provided more context. Here is the part of the translation in full:
"The Euvitis subgenus può essere suddiviso in:
* specie americane dei climi temperati, a loro volta suddivise in:
- serie orientali (resistenti alla Peronospora ma scarsamente alla Fillossera, con attitudine uvifera)
- serie centrali (resistenti ma con scarsa attitudine uvifera)
- serie occidentali (resistenti alla siccità, prive di attitudine uvifera)
The article is about vine species and grapes in general, their nutritional value and other properties and I quite agree that it does sound very strange to talk of a vine which does not produce grapes...
Does that make it clearer?
I don't know if the "various species" you're referring to are "grape varieties" or something else.
Attitudine looks like the italian term "vocato/a" in the common expression "zona vocata (alla viticoltura)" translated by Giles Watson as "vineyard terrain".
Erklärung: Are they for the table or for wine, by the way? A whole sentence might help.
It depends on the sentence but e.g. "... good yield of grapes.." "heavy bearer of fruit..." "..moderate yield..." "likely to be a heavy/light/moderate bearer..." or "reluctant to bear fruit...", etc.
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I don't know if the "various species" you're referring to are "grape varieties" or something else.
Attitudine looks like the italian term "vocato/a" in the common expression "zona vocata (alla viticoltura)" translated by Giles Watson as "vineyard terrain".
The translation workplace 
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