calque
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[edit] English
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From French calque (“calque/loan translation”), from French calquer (“to trace”), from Italian calcare.
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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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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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calque m. (plural calques)
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calque (infinitive calcar)
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