Calques - English meaning
Calques – definitions in English dictionary
verbAnother term for loan translation.
verbOriginate or function as a loan translation of.
Usage examples:
‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on french ‘cela va sans dire’
nounA word taken from one language and translated in a literal or word for word way to be used in another
Usage examples:
"groundhog" may be a calque from dutch "aertoercken."
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Word origin
1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’.
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