semantic loan

English

Examples
French souris from English mouse (“computer mouse”) German realisieren or Italian realizzare from English realize (“to become aware”)

Noun

semantic loan (plural semantic loans)

1. (linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.

   Synonyms: loan meaning, semantic calque

   Hypernym: semantic borrowing

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: اِقْتِرَاض مَعْنَوِيّ‎ m (iqtirāḍ maʕnawiyy)
• Danish: betydningslån n
• Finnish: merkityslaina (fi)
• German: Bedeutungsentlehnung f, Lehnbedeutung (de) f
• Greek: σημασιολογικό δάνειο (el) n (simasiologikó dáneio)
• Russian: семанти́ческая ка́лька f (semantíčeskaja kálʹka)

See also

• calque
• loan translation
• loanword

Further reading

• semantic loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• semantic calque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia