calque

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Etymology

From French calque, from calquer ("to copy, trace") (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kælk/

Noun

calque (plural calques)

1. (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

   Hypernyms: loan formation

   Coordinate term: (a term that is partially a calque and partially formally contains a foreign element) partial calque, loanblend

Translations

• French: calque
• German: Lehnübersetzung
• Italian: calco
• Portuguese: decalque, decalque linguístico
• Russian: ка́лька
• Spanish: calco

Verb

calque (calques, present participle calquing; simple past and past participle calqued)

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

Translations

• French: calquer
• German: lehnübersetzen
• Portuguese: decalcar
• Russian: калькировать
• Spanish: calcar

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