calque

calque

a borrowing by which a specialized meaning of a word or phrase in one language is transferred to another language by a literal translation of each of the individual elements (Ex.: masterpiece, from German meisterstück)

Origin of calque

Fr, an imitation, tracing from calquer, to trace from Italian calcare, to press, trample from L, to tread: see caulk

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calque

noun

See loan translation.

transitive verb

calqued, calque·ing, calques

To make a loan translation from (a word in another language).

Origin of calque

French from calquer to trace, copy from Italian calcare to press from Latin calcāre to tread on from calx heel

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Noun

(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.

The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".

Verb

(third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)

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

Origin

From French calque (“calque/loan translation”), from French calquer (“to trace”), from Italian calcare.

See also: calqué

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