GLOSSARY OF ITALIAN-ENGLISH (SALESIAN)

abbandonato
academia
accolitato
accompagnamento
vocazionale
ACG
affidamento
Africa Centrale
Africa Est
Africa Etiopia-Eritrea
Africa Occidentale
Anglofona
Africa Occidentale
Francofona
Africa Tropicale
Equatoriale
Agenzia Internazionale
Salesiana
agiatezza
allegria
allegria, studio, pieta

abandoned
academy
Ministry of Acolyte
vocation accompaniment

ambiente educativo
ambienti educativi
ambienti popolare
ambienti salesiani
ambienti salesiani
America Latina Cono Sud
Amici di Don Bosco
amorevolezza
amorevolezza

AGC
entrustment
Central Africa
East Africa
Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea
English-speaking West
Africa
French-speaking West
Africa
Tropical Equatorial
Africa
Salesian International
News Agency
comfort
cheerfulness
cheerfulness, study,
piety
educational environment
educational environments
ordinary poor people
Salesian settings
Salesian environments
Latin America South Cone
Friends of Don Bosco
loving kindness
loving-kindness

anagrafe

family register

animatore
animatore
animatori
animatori
animazione
animazione
annuario
ANS

animator
leader
animators
leaders
animation
leadership
yearbook
Salesian International
News Agency
The Antilles
apostolate

Antille
apostolato
Archivio Salesiano
Centrale
artigiani
ASC
ascritti
Asia East-Oceania
Asia Sud
aspirantato
aspiranti
assemblea
assemblea comunitaria
pastorale
assistente

Salesian Central
Archives
working lads
Salesian Central
Archives
novices
East Asia-Oceania
South Asia
aspirantate
aspirants
assembly
community assembly
assistant

often in combination with poor and..

entertainment a with religious twist
avoid vocational since this is more
likely to mean guidance for employment
as distinct from
juridical entity
juridical entity
juridical entity
juridical entity

consecration
vice province
vice province
vice province
vice province

juridical entity vice province

juridical entity vice province
Note that neither translate the usual
acronym ANS
DB warned against
a triad offered by DB

cf. also ceti popolare

Salesian region not southern cone

could possibly also be written as

lovingkindness amongst Salesians who
are accustomed to the term by now
document listing residents at Valdocco
1847-69

in the Salesian sense of leadership

The English gloss adds international

not to be used to translate pastorale
in pastorale giovanile.

term preferred by DB
Salesian region
Salesian region

as an official term, probably obsolete

technical term for Salesians

assistenti
assistenza
Associazione
Cooperatori Salesiani
Associazione degli
Exallievi di Don Bosco

assistants
assistance
The Association of
Salesian Cooperators
The Association of Past
Pupils of Don Bosco

Associazione Devoti
Maria Ausiliatrice

The Association of
Clients of Mary Help of
Christians
Salesian association
group-mindedness
Acts of the General
Council
current events
Blesseds

associazione salesiana
associazionismo
Atti del Consiglio
Generale
attualit
Beati
beati
Beato
Belgio Nord
Belgio Sud
bilancio consuntivo
bilancio preventive
Bolletino Salesiano
bont
Borga Dora
borgata
breviario
buon cristiano e onesto
cittadino
buona notte
Buonanotte
Camerette
canonizzazione
capitoli ispettoriali
Capitolo Generale
Speciale
Capitolo Generale
Speciale XX
Capitolo Generale XIX
Capitolo Generale XXI
Capitolo Generale XXII
Capitolo Generale XXIII
Capitolo Generale XXIV
Capitolo Generale XXV
capitolo ispettoriale
car ij m fieuj
carisma
carisma del fondatore
carisma del fondatore
carit educativa
carit pastorale
Carta Comune didentit
Carta della Missione
casa
Casa Annessa

Blesseds
Blessed
North Belgium
South Belgium
final balance
budget
Salesian Bulletin
goodness
The Dora District
hamlet
breviary
good Christian and
honest citizen
good night
Goodnight
Don Boscos rooms
canonisation
provincial chapters
Special General Chapter

Casa Generalizia
Casetta
Casetta
catechesi

Generalate
Don Boscos house
The Cottage
catechesis

Special General Chapter

20
19th General Chapter
21st General Chapter
22nd General Chapter
23rd General Chapter
24th General Chapter
25th General Chapter
provincial chapter
my beloved sons
charism
the Founders charism
the founding charism
educative charity
pastoral charity
Common Identity Card
Common Mission Statement
house
The Annex , the House
Attached

technical term for Salesians

DB added Pious (Pia Associazione)
the of Don Bosco is considered
essential to the nature of this group,
not an additional extra
Note clients to translate devoti

or a longer descriptive phrase

some may still prefer the original

beati

Salesian province
Salesian Province

Turin suburb next to Valdocco

Divine Office, Prayer of the Church
phrase attributed to DB

also SGC

Piedomentese.

DBs term

note the difference in English

DBs first boarding establishment at

the Oratory became a boarding school
eventually (collegio-convitto)
also General House

catechismo
catechismo

catechetics
catechism

catechista

catechist

causa di canonizzazione
cenciosi
cenni storici

Cause for/of
Canonisation
wretches, destitute
historical outlines

cenno istorico

historical outline

cenno storico

historical outline

centri vocazionali

vocation centres

centro catechistico
Centro Catechistico
Salesiano
centro di Pastorale
giovanile
centro di spiritualit
Centro di Studi Don
Bosco
centro giovanile
Centro Nazionale Opere
Salesiane
centro vocazionale
CEP
ceti popolari
CG19
CG20
CG21
CG22
CG23
CG24
CG25
chiesa pubblica
Cholera Asiaticus

catechetical centre
Salesian Catechetical
Centre
Youth (Pastoral)Ministry
Centre
spirituality centre
Don Bosco Study Centre

Cina
circoscrizione
Circoscrizione
Circoscrizione speciale
Europa dell'Est
CNOS FAP

youth centre
National Centre for
Salesian Works
vocation centre
EPC
working classes
GC19
GC20
GC21
GC22
GC23
GC24
GC25
public church
The Cholera (Asian
strain)
China
district
Circumscription
East Europe Special
Circumscription
CNOS FAP

coadiutore

Brother

Codex Iuris Canonici

colera
collaboratore
collaboratore

The Code of canon Law

The Cholera
co-worker
collaborator

DB sometimes meant an entire programme,

and probably also The Oratory at
times
as a now almost obsolete role in a
Salesian House or as a contemporary
term for (usually) a lay teacher of the
faith
synonym also for poor and abandoned
title of preamble that DB wrote
(however there were several of them)
presented in Rome 1874 its full title
was Cenno istorico sulla Congregazione
di S. Francesco di Sales e relativi
schiarimenti (Historical Note on the
Congregation of St. Francis de Sales
and certain clarifications)
1854. Full title: Cenno Storico
dell'Oratorio di S. Francesco di Sales,
if the meaning is vocations to
religious life, priesthood. Otherwise
vocational centre

Italy
ie, educative and Pastoral Community
cf. also ambienti popolare

Latin title of disease which struck

Turin in 1854

More likely as a special unit

juridical entity dependent on Rector
Major
organization guiding technical
education in Salesian institutes in
Italy
some regions say Coadjutor Brother.
Most avoid the term Lay Brother
Disease that struck Turin 1854
can have nasty historical overtones for
the UK but generally acceptable

collaboratore
collaboratore
collaboratori
collaboratori
collaboratori
collaboratori
collegio

colleague
partner
co-workers
collaborators
colleagues
partners
boarding school

colloquio
Commissione
Ispettoriale per la
Formazione
commune
commune
compagnia
Compagnia del Piccolo
Clero
Compagnia
dell'Immacolata
Concezione
Compagnia di San Luigi
Gonzaga
compagno
comunicazione
comunicazione sociale
Comunicazione Sociale
comunicazioni
comunit
comunit
comunit educativopastorale
conferenza ispettoriale
confessore
Confronto

friendly talk
Provincial Formation
Commission
parish
town
sodality
Altar Boys Sodality

In DBs time always boarding involved.

Nowadays outside of Italy this is
probably not the case

note context to determine meaning

Immaculate Conception
Sodality
St. Aloysius Sodality
companion, friend
communication
social communication
Social Communication
communications
communities
community
educative and pastoral
community
Provincial Conference
confessor
Confronto

congregazione
consecrazione
consigliere
consigliere per la
pastorale giovanile
consigliere per la
pastorale giovanile
consigliere regionale
Consiglio
consiglio della
comunit
consiglio della opera
consiglio della opera
Consiglio Generale
consiglio superiore
consistenza qualitativa
e quantitativa
consulta mondiale
consultazione
convitto
Convitto Ecclesiastico

Congregation
consecration
councillor
Councillor for Youth
Ministry
Youth Ministry
Councillor
regional councillor
council
Community Council

cooperatore
cooperatrice
correzione fraterna

Cooperator
Cooperator
fraternal correction

parish council
school council
General Council
Superior Council
the right quality and
number
World Advisory Council
consultation
boarding school
The Pastoral Institute

context may suggest friend

priest who hears confessions

also Gathering. Some areas use
Meet(n)

or Youth Pastoral Ministry

or Youth Pastoral Ministry Councillor

avoid ~ of the Work

Normally left in the Italian, but in

todays language it was a Pastoral
Institute, Turin

Costituzioni
cristologia salesiana
Criteri e norme di
discernimento
vocazionale salesiano
criterio oratoriano
cronaca della casa
CS
cuore oratoriano
da mihi animas caetera
tolle
delegato
Delegato Centrale
Cooperatori
Delegato Cooperatori
Delegato Exallievi
delegato vocazionale
delegazione
destinatari
destinatari
destinatari
devozione
dicastero

Constitutions
Salesian Christology
Criteria and Norms for
Salesian Vocation
Discernment
Oratory criterion
House chronicle
SC
Oratorian heart
Give me souls; take away
the rest
Delegate
Cooperators Central
Delegate
Cooperators Delegate
Past Pupils Delegate
Vocations Delegate
delegation
charges
beneficiaries
those for whom we work
devotion
department

dimensione sociale
della carit
dinamismo

social dimension of
charity
energy

direttore
direttorio

rector
directory

direzione
Direzione Generale
Opere Don Bosco
direzione spirituale
diritto proprio
discernimento
disciplina religiosa
discoli, dissipate e
buoni
dispensari medici
docile

administration
General Administration
for the Works of Don
Bosco
spiritual direction
Proper Law
discernment
religious discipline
the unruly, the
frivolous and the good
health clinics
well-behaved

Don Bosco International

Don Bosco Network
economo

Don Bosco International

Don Bosco Network
administrator

economo
economo
economo
economo ispettoriale
ecosistema

bursar
finance manager
treasurer
Provincial Economer
ecosystem

editrice
educativo

publishing house
educational

educativo-pastorale

educative and pastoral

avoid vocational which tends to refer

to work and employment opportunity in
English

Social Communication

or recipients, or.

in common use but not actually official

use, where sector is the official
term.
could be dynamism but probably best
rendered as energy
or Director (US)
not just any directory but of norms in
general use in the Congregation, e.g.
Formation Directory, Provincial
Directory

brief set of character descriptions

used by DB in Cenni Storici
beware glossing as docile, though it
implies this attitude.
Only ever found in English.
Only ever found in English
at local level best to avoid economer
which is an entirely Salesian
neologism!

we are stuck with this it seems.

used in discussion of
educommunication
note that the al affix is preferred to
-ive

educazione
educomunicazione

education
educommunication

elenco generale
emarginati
emarginati
emarginati
Epistolario
quipe
quipe pastorale
ispettoriale
esercizi spirituali
esercizio della buona
morte
estasi dell'azione
Europa Nord
Europa Nord
Europa Ovest
evangelizzazione
exallievo
exallievo
Famiglia salesiana
famigliarit
fanciullo
fedelt dinamica
Figlie di Maria
Ausiliatrice
Figlie di Maria
Ausiliatrice
figliuoli
Filippine Nord
Filippine Sud
fioretti

yearbook
fringe-dwellers
ignored
marginalised
Collected Correspondence
team
Provincial pastoral team

fisionomia
fisionomia
Fondazione Don Bosco
nel Mondo
fondo Don Bosco
Fondo Missioni
formatore
formazione
Formazione dei
Salesiani di Don Bosco
formazione permanente
formazione permanente
formazione
professionale
formazione
professionale
formazione
professionale
fragilit vocazionale
frazione
Garelli, Bartolomeo

retreat
Exercise for a Happy
Death
ecstasy of action
North Europe
North Europe
West Europe
evangelisation
alumnus
past pupil
Salesian Family
familiarity
youngster
dynamic fidelity
Daughters of Mary Help
of Christians
Salesian Sisters
beloved children
North Philippines
South Philippines
good actions, little
acts of penance
character
shape
Don Bosco in the World
Foundation
Don Bosco Fund
Mission Fund
formator
formation
Formation of the
Salesians of Don Bosco
continuing formation
ongoing formation
technical formation

something more than media education.

Has Brasilian origins as a term
now called annuario in Italian

e.g. of DBs letters.

originally St. Francis de Sales term

Salesian region
Salesian region
Salesian region

DBs spelling. Today without g

6-13 years of age

province
province

technical may not always capture the

full sense

vocational education
technical training
vocation frailty
hamlet
Bartholomew Garelli

Generala

The Generala

geniale
GEX
ginnasio

brilliant, clever
Young Past Pupils
secondary schooling

name associated in Salesian lore with

December 8th 1841 and the beginning of
DBs Oratory
Correctional institute for juveniles in
DBs day, outside Turin
avoid genial
High School

Giona

Jonah

giorno della comunit

Giovane Provveduto
giovanetto

community day
The Companion of Youth
youth

giovani
giovani di strada
giovent
giunta

young people
streetkids
youth
Executive committee

globale
globale
Harambe
Hong Kong Don Bosco
Foundation

global
overall
Harambe
DBF

I Becchi
identit
Il Direttore Salesiano.
Un ministero per
l'animazione e il
governo della comunit
locale
imborghesimento
imprese
in definitiva
in linea di massima
Incaricato

The Becchi
identity
The Salesian Rector: a
ministry for the
animation and government
of the local community

  


middle-class thinking
enterprises
after all
as a general rule
person in charge

Incaricato
inculturazione
inculturazione

priest in charge
inculturation
inculturation,
enculturation,
socialisation

inserimento sociale
Interamerica
internato
ispettore
Istituto di Diritto
Pontificio
Istituto di Scienze
della Comunicazione
Sociale
Istituto Salesiano per
le Missioni
Istituto Storico
Salesiano
Istituzioni
Universitarie Salesiane
Istituzioni
Universitarie Salesiane
Italia-Medio Oriente
Italia-Medio Oriente
itinerario
itinerario
itinerario
Jugend Dritte Welt

slotting into society

Interamerica
boarding place
provincial
Institute of Pontifical
Right
Institute of Sciences of
Social Communication

LAusiliatrice

Salesian Missions
Institute
Salesian Historical
Institute
Institute of Salesian
Universities
Salesian Universities
Institute
Italy-Middle East
Italy-Middle East
curriculum
journey
pathway
Youth for the Third
World
Mary Help of Christians

name given by DB in MO to Jacob Levi, a

Jewish friend.

seems interchangeable with fanciullo,

giovane

as distinct from Executive Council, one

level higher. Could also be Steering
Committee.

Also known simply as Don Bosco

Foundation, operating in Mainland China
to promote Don Bosco and works inspired
by his educational system

suggest to avoid in-charge (n) which is

simply a literalisation of the Italian
with theological meaning
Italian does not have an en- version,
nor does Latin. inculturation in
English has more specific sense of
faith/religion and culture

e.g. the Salesian Society

Juridical entity, Turin-based.

ISS
IUS
IUS
Salesian region

and several other possibilites

German. Salesian NGO

la grazia di unit
La Storia dItalia

the grace of unity

The History of Italy

laicit
laico
Lavoro e temperanza
L'estasi dell'azione
lettorato
Letture Cattoliche
L'Ispettore Salesiano,
un ministero per
l'animazione e il
governo della comunit
ispettoriale
Lotteria

laicity
lay person
work and temperance
the ecstasy of action
Ministry of Lector
Catholic Readings
The Salesian Provincial:
a ministry for the
animation and government
of the provincial
community
Lottery, raffle

luoghi salesiani
Maestro dei Novizi
manuale
manuale
manuale del direttore
marginalizzazione
marginalizzazione
marginalizzazione
Memorie Biografiche
Memorie dellOratorio
MGS
mixit
mondializzazione

Salesian holy places

Director of novices
handbook
manual
Rectors Handbook
exclusion from society
ignoring
marginalisation
Biographical Memoirs
Memoirs of the Oratory
SYM
coeducation
globalisation

Movimento Giovanile
Salesiano
necrologia
nozione
nucleo animatore
operativo
oratoriano
Oratorio festivo
organismi ispettoriali
orientamenti operative
orientamento
vocazionale
orientamento
vocazionale
ospizio
pacificatori
parolina all'orecchio
parolina all'orecchio
pastorale giovanile
pastorale giovanile
pastorale giovanile
salesiana
pastorale giovanile
salesiana

Salesian Youth Movement

necrology
concept
animating nucleus
working
oratorian
Festive Oratory
provincial bodies
working guidelines
vocation guidance

Title by DB. Full title was La storia

d'Italia raccontata alla giovent dai
suoi primi abitanti sino ai nostri
giorni corredata di una Carta
Geografica d'Italia. (History of Italy
as told to the young, from its first
inhabitants to our own times, with
Geographical Map of Italy), 1855.

avoid lectorate
Provincials Manual is another term for
it

DB began his first in 1851.

many more to follow.

There were

rather than Master of Novices

or simply marginalisation

Italian and French make a distinction

between mondialisation and
globalisation in technical sense but
often mean the same thing in general
use.
list of Salesian departed

ie at weekends and on Holy Days

vocational guidance
hostel
peacemakers
word in the ear
word-in-the-ear
Youth Ministry
Youth pastoral Ministry
Salesian Youth Ministry
Salesian Youth pastoral
Ministry

or shelter. avoid hospice

a role devised by DB at the Oratory

pastorale vocazionale
paternit

pastoral ministry for

vocations
fatherliness

patroni

patrons

pedagogia
pedagogia
pensionato
pericolanti e
pericolosi
Piano di Regolamento

education
pedagogy
hostel
at risk and difficult

Piano Organico
Ispettoriale
PICS
POI
Polaris

Organic Provincial Plan

OPP
Provincial Social
Communication Plan
Organic Provincial Plan
Polaris

postulatore generale
preghiera salesiana
prenoviziato
presbiterio
Presentazione
presenza
presenza

postulator general
Salesian prayer
prenovitiate
sanctuary
Presentation
House
presence

presidenza

Executive Council

preventivit
primato di Dio
procura
procuratore generale

preventiveness
primacy of God
mission office
procurator general

professio fidei
progettazione
progetti
progetti
progetto
progetto
Progetto Africa
progetto apostolico di
Don Bosco
Progetto Cina
Progetto di Animazione
e Governo del Rettor
Maggiore e suo
Consiglio per il
sessennio
Progetto di vita dei
Salesiani di Don Bosco

profession of faith
planning
plans
projects
plan
project
Project Africa
Don Boscos apostolic
project
Project China
The Animation and
Government Project of
the Rector Major and his
Council for the six year
period
The Project of Life of
the Salesians of Don
Bosco
The Salesian Educational
and Pastoral Project
Provincial Formation
Project
Institutional Marketing
Project
personal Salesian life
project

progetto educativo
pastorale salesiano
Progetto Ispettoriale
di Formazione
Progetto Marketing
Istituzionale
progetto personale di
vita salesiana

Plan for Regulations

avoid paternity which means something

else in English
apart from its normal use, a role
devised for the Oratory in DBs time

literally dangerous!
DB drew up several e.g. one for The
Annex (House attached) to the Oratory
Provincial Plan is sufficient without
organic.

Fund largely managed under Salesian

direction by for Religious
Congregations, non-profit, for
investment
for saintly causes

use House where possible when talking

of a Salesian presenza
e.g. for Past Pupils at Confederational
level

represents Rector Major at the Holy See

and in dealings with the Holy See

Commentary on the Constitutions

Programmazione
promozione umana
promozione vocazionale
protagonismo
protagonismo
protagonismo
protocollo

planning
human development
vocation promotion
initiative
involvement
leadership
correspondence register

qualificare
qualificato
quinquennio
radiografia

to prepare
prepared
quinquennium
overview

ragazzi della strada

ragazzi della strada
realizzare
Regolamenti per le case
salesiane
Regolamento di Vita
Apostolica
dell'Associazione
Cooperatori Salesiani
regolatore
regolatori della
ricreazione
rendiconto
rendiconto
repertorio domestico

street children
streetkids
to bring about
Regulations for Salesian
Houses
Apostolic Rule of Life
for the Salesian
Cooperators

responsabile
responsabile
Rete di corrispondenti
Rettor Maggiore
rettorato

The one in charge of

The one responsible for
Correspondents network
Rector Major
period of leadership as
Rector Major
redimensioning
giving new meaning to
Parish hall
Salesian
Salesians
Salesians of Don Bosco
Salesian
health, wisdom, holiness

ridimensionamento
risignificazione
sala della comunit
salesiana
salesiani
Salesiani di Don Bosco
salesiano
salute, sapienza,
santit
San Giovanni Bosco
sciusci
scrutinium paupertatis
scuola di fede
scuola professionale
scuola professionale
segretario generale
segretario ispettoriale
Servo di Dio
sessennio
settore
SGS
significativit
significativit della
presenza salesiana

moderator
recreation monitors
financial account
friendly talk
House list

St. John Bosco

shoeshine boys
scrutiny on poverty
school of faith
technical school
trade school
secretary general
provincial secretary
Servant of God
six year period
sector
SYS
meaningfulness
the impact of the
Salesian presence

which is what it is when found in our

Salesian discourse, not protocol as
in the correct way to handle the Rector
Majors visit or something.

literally an X-ray, so more of a

through-view!

a role devised by DB at the Oratory

document in DBs own hand, listing

residents at Valdocco

often referreed to as dicastero or

department

significativit della
presenza salesiana
significit
sinergia
sintesi
sistema preventivo
sistema salesiano di
comunicazione sociale
Societ di Mutuo
Soccorso
Societ Salesiana
Societ Salesiana di
San Giovanni Bosco
Societas Sancti
Francisci Salesii
socio
sogno
solidariet
spedizione missionaria
spirito salesiano
spiritualit
spiritualit giovanile
salesiana
stemma salesiano

the meaningfulness of
the Salesian presence
meaningfulness
teamwork
summary
Preventive System
Salesian System of
Social Communication
Mutual Help Society
Salesian Society
Salesian Society of Don
Bosco
The Society of St.
Francis de Sales
member
dream
solidarity
missionary expedition
Salesian spirit
spirituality
Salesian youth
spirituality
Salesian Coat of Arms

Storia dell'Oratorio di
San Francesco di Sales
Storia Ecclesiastica

History of the Oratory

of St. Francis de Sales
Church History

Storia Sacra

Sacred History

sussidio
sussidio
testimonianza
tirocinio
traduzione
Trattatello sul Sistema
preventive
umanizzazione
Universit Pontificia
Salesiana
vademecum
Venerabile

aid
training aid
witness
practical training
translation
Little Treatise on the
Preventive System
integral human
development
Salesian Pontifical
University
handbook
Venerable

verifica
vicario del rettor
maggiore
vicario generale
visita d'insieme
visita ispettoriale

evaluation
Vicar of the Rector
Major
vicar general
Team Visit
Provincial Visitation

e.g. founded by DB as an offshoot of

the St. Aloysius Sodality.

as distinct from the Logo of the

General Administration. The Stemma was
brought into being by DB, the Logo in
very recent times.
Title by DB. Full title was Storia
ecclesiastica ad uso delle scuole per
ogni ceto di persone (Church History
for use in Schools for all levels of
Society), 1845. By the 4th edition he
had changed the latter part of the
title to 'ad uso della giovent utile
ad ogni grado di persone' (..for the
use of the young and useful for
anyone).
short title for DBs Storia Sacra per
uso delle scuole utile ad ogni stato di
persone. (Sacred History for use in the
School and useful for anyone).

written by DB
avoid the awkward sounding
humanisation

plural? Some prefer the original

venerabili

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Volontari Con Don Bosco
volontariato
volontariato
Volontariato
Internazionale per lo
Sviluppo
Volontarie di Don Bosco

vice province
Volunteers With Don
Bosco
volunteer organization
volunteer work
International Volunteer
Organisation for
Development
Don Bosco Volunteers