calque
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kælk/
calque (plural calques)
- (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
- Synonyms: loan translation, calquing
- The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".
- French: calque
- German: Lehnübersetzung
- Italian: calco
- Portuguese: decalque (linguístico) m
- Russian: ка́лька
- Spanish: calco
calque (calques, present participle calquing; past and past participle calqued)
- (linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
- French: calquer
- German: lehnübersetzen
- Russian: калькировать
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