calque
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See also: calqué
English
Etymology
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
Pronunciation
Noun
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calque (plural calques)
- (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
- Synonyms: loan translation, calquing
- Hypernym: loan formation
- Coordinate term: (a term that is partially a calque and partially formally contains a foreign element) partial calque, loanblend
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Derived terms
Translations
word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
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Trivia
- While the term calque is a loanword from French, the term loanword is a calque from the German compound noun Lehnwort.
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Verb
calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)
- (linguistics, translation studies, transitive) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
Translations
adopt a word by translation of its parts
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “calque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “calque”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “calque”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
calque
French
Etymology
Deverbal from calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).
Pronunciation
Noun
calque m (plural calques)
- tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
- (lexicography) calque, loan translation
- (computer graphics) layer
Descendants
- → Belarusian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Bulgarian: ка́лка (kálka)
- → Catalan: calc (semantic loan)
- → Czech: kalk
- → English: calque
- → Georgian: კალკი (ḳalḳi)
- → Italian: calco (semantic loan)
- → Latvian: kalks
- → Macedonian: калка (kalka)
- → Polish: kalka
- → Romanian: calc
- → Russian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ка̏лк (kȁlk)
- → Slovak: kalk
- → Slovene: kalk
- → Spanish: calco (semantic loan)
- → Ukrainian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Yiddish: קאַלקע (kalke)
Further reading
- “calque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
calque
- inflection of calcar:
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
calque
- inflection of calcar:
Spanish
Verb
calque
- inflection of calcar:
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