calque
noun/kælk/
/kælk/
(also loan translation)
(linguistics)- a word or expression in a language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language
- ‘Traffic calming’ is a calque of the German ‘Verkehrsberuhigung’.
Word Origin1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’.Definitions on the go
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