calque
See also: calqué
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
- Hypernym: loan formation
- Coordinate term: (a term that is partially a calque and partially formally contains a foreign element) partial calque, loanblend
- The word “watershed” is a calque of the German “Wasserscheide”.
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Derived termsEdit
TriviaEdit
- While the term calque is a loanword from French, the term loanword is a calque from the German compound noun Lehnwort.
TranslationsEdit
word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
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See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple 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.
TranslationsEdit
adopt a word by translation of its parts
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ReferencesEdit
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “calque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- calque at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “calque” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
VerbEdit
calque
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Deverbal of calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“I tread”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
calque m (plural calques)
- tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
- (lexicography) calque, loan translation
- (computer graphics) layer
DescendantsEdit
- → Belarusian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Bulgarian: ка́лка (kálka)
- → Catalan: calc (semantic loan)
- → Czech: kalk
- → English: calque
- → Georgian: კალკი (ḳalḳi)
- → Italian: calco (semantic loan)
- → Latvian: kalks
- → Macedonian: калка (kalka)
- → Polish: kalka
- → Romanian: calc
- → Russian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ка̏лк (kȁlk)
- → Slovak: kalk
- → Slovene: kalk
- → Spanish: calco (semantic loan)
- → Ukrainian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
- → Yiddish: קאַלקע (kalke)
Further readingEdit
- “calque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
calque
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of calcar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of calcar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of calcar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of calcar
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
calque