calque
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme…A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
» It's a calque.
Це калька.
Meaning
1 sensesA word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
Lehnübersetzung
ка́лькаkálʹka
ка́лькаkálʹka
an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language
Examples
3 sentencesIt's a calque.
Це калька. — triantafillou
"Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.
In English we say "coup d'etat," from French, where many other languages have their own words or calques.
Translations
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Origin
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”)From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
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Forms
plural: calquesSynonyms
3 synonyms- an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language:calque formationloan translation