calque

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

Verb

To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

Conceptos

calco

calco semántico

Sinónimos

loan translation

calque formation

Traducciones

calque

Lehnübersetzung

calco

leenvertaling

Lehnprägung

calc

decalque

decalque lingüístico

μεταφραστικό δάνειο

Bedeutungslehnwort

calquage

tracement

letterlijke vertaling

woordelijke vertaling

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kælk/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.