calque

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

loan translation

calque formation

Translations

calque

Lehnübersetzung

calco

calco

Lehnprägung

leenvertaling

μεταφραστικό δάνειο

decalque lingüístico

calc

Bedeutungslehnwort

decalque

metafrastikó dánio

ιχνογράφηση

Nebeneintragungsvermerk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kælk/

Etymology

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.