calque

[ kalk ]
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noun
  1. a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula.

verb (used with object),calqued, cal·quing.
  1. to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation.

Origin of calque

1
1655–65; <French, noun derivative of calquer to copy, base on <Italian calcare to trace over, tread <Latin: to trample

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British Dictionary definitions for calque

calque

/ (kælk) /


noun
  1. another word for loan translation

verbcalques, calquing or calqued
  1. (tr) another word for calk 3

Origin of calque

1
C20: from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin calcāre to tread

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