calque
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French calque (“‘calque/loan translation’”), from French calquer (“‘to trace’”), from Italian calcare.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /kælk/
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- Rhymes: -ælk
[edit] Noun
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calque (plural calques)
- A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
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- The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".
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word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
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[edit] Verb
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to calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)
- (transitive) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
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to adopt a word by translation of its parts
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[edit] See also
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of acelqu
- claque
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
calque m. (plural calques)
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
calque (infinitive: calcar)
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of calcar.
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