calque

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kælk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

calque

calquer

calquage

tracement

Synonymes

loan translation

calque formation

Traductions

Lehnübersetzung

calco

calco

Lehnprägung

leenvertaling

calc

Bedeutungslehnwort

μεταφραστικό δάνειο

kalka

decalque

decalque lingüístico

ιχνογράφηση

calco semántico

metafrastikó dánio

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