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Calque Definition

calque

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English

WOTD - 1 August 2007 Wikipedia has an article on: Calque

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

calque (plural calques)

  1. 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".

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Verb

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

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

Translations

to adopt a word by translation of its parts
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 借译 (zh) (jièyì)
  • Finnish: omaksua (fi) käännöslaina
  • Macedonian: калкира (mk) (kalkíra)
  • Russian: калькировать (ru) (kal’kirovat’)

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French

Noun

calque m. (plural calques)

  1. calque

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Spanish

Verb

calque (infinitive calcar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of calcar.

 

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