calque
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French calque (“calque/loan translation”), from French calquer (“to trace”), from Italian calcare.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
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".
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
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Verb [edit]
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.
Translations [edit]
to adopt a word by translation of its parts
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Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Noun [edit]
calque m (plural calques)
Anagrams [edit]
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
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.
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
calque
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