loanword
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
loanword (plural loanwords)
- A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
- The word exit is a loanword from Latin.
- French: emprunt
- German: Lehnwort, Fremdwort
- Italian: forestierismo, calco (when the loanword is a calque), prestito linguistico
- Portuguese: estrangeirismo, empréstimo
- Russian: заи́мствование
- Spanish: extranjerismo, préstamo, calco
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