Definitions for loanwordˈloʊnˌwɜrd
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
loan•wordˈloʊnˌwɜrd(n.)
a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usu. naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
Category: Language/Linguistics
Origin of loanword:
1870–75; trans. of G Lehnwort
Princeton's WordNet
loanword, loan(noun)
a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
Wiktionary
loanword(Noun)
A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
The word exit is a loanword from Latin.
Origin: ; a calque of the Lehnwort,
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