Como dizer "infiltração" em inglês

Thomas escreveu:"The ceiling of the bathroom has a leak", "Water is leaking through the ceiling of the bathroom", "The bathroom ceiling is leaking", etc.

*Adding:

leaky roof = telhado com goteira

Infiltração nesse caso é water seepage.

Uia, me embananei toda agora! hahahaha
Água que passa por uma parede ou pelo chão? Por tubulação vc diz ou vazamento mesmo?

Diria "The ceiling of the bathroom has a leak", "Water is leaking through the ceiling of the bathroom", "The bathroom ceiling is leaking", etc. Em outras palavras, o teto do banheiro tem goteira. "Seepage" é mais usado para agua que passa por uma parede (de fora para dentro, de um quarto para outro), pelo chão, etc. Os significados são parecidos mas não são iguais. O que acha?

Vazamento, Joanna. Pode ler o que escrevi aqui embaixo.

In the section below from Merriam-Webster, I think the key word is "porous".
a quantity of a fluid that has seeped through porous material (as soil)
A wall can be porous, soil can be porous, etc. The liquid is in "area one", passes through "area two", and reaches "area three". If you have excess of water in part of the house, in theory it may be able to penetrate its boundaries (such as walls or doors), and reach another part of the house. A roof or ceiling can have a hole in it, but it is not generally porous. With a roof or ceiling, I see the water under normal conditions as leaking through a hole (or holes) in the ceiling, not seeping.

Let's get away from houses and rooms. I give you iced tea in a glass. You realize that some of tea is leaving the glass and getting on your hand. Is the glass seeping or leaking? It is leaking, and it is leaking through a hole in the otherwise solid glass. It is not seeping because glass is not normally porous. Or I give you a plant in a pot. We pour water into it. Soon there is a puddle of water under the pot. How did it get there? If the pot has a hole or crack in it, the pot leaked (or the water leaked out of the pot). However, if the pot is of porous clay/pottery, the water seeped out of the pot.

Does that make sense?



Merriam-Webster Unabbridged:
Main Entry: seep·age Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: -pij, -pemacronj
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
Etymology: 1seep + -age
1 a : the act or process of seeping : OOZING <many streams lose water by seepage in certain stretches -- A.N.Sayre> b : a quantity of a fluid that has seeped through porous material (as soil) <seepages of oil and gas are widely distributed throughout the world -- C.G.Lalicker> <families stood barefoot in cellars bailing out seepage -- New York Times>