Ser de buena cuna

ROBINDESBOIS · #1 January 23, 2010, 06:43 AM

it means that your origins are good, that your were born in the seno of a good family. English?

Perikles · #2 January 23, 2010, 09:34 AM

To be of good birth
To be of noble birth (ilustre cuna)
To be of humble birth (humilde cuna)

pjt33 · #3 January 23, 2010, 11:27 AM

Also to be from a good family.

chileno · #4 January 23, 2010, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by pjt33

Also to be from a good family.

Not also.

Ser de buena cuna, significa ser de buena familia.

Ser de cuna ilustre = ser de familia de/con alcurnia.

Ahora si uno habla de una cuna cualquiera, tal como en inglés, you are talking about the cradle itself.

poli · #5 January 25, 2010, 06:25 AM

You can say : To come from solid stock.

pjt33 · #6 January 25, 2010, 07:10 AM

I thought about that and decided it connotes someone of inferior class. Maybe that's just influence from Wodehouse, though.

Perikles · #7 January 25, 2010, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pjt33

I thought about that and decided it connotes someone of inferior class. Maybe that's just influence from Wodehouse, though.

I think I agree, even without Wodehouse. Solid stock is understood as reliable, conservative, with connotations of inferior class. Not quite the same.

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