Definitions for calque
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1. calque, calque formation, loan translationnoun

   an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language

   "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"

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1. calquenoun

   A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

2. calqueverb

   To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

3. Etymology: From calque, from calquer, from calcare.

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1. Calque

   In linguistics, a calque () or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. For instance, the English word "skyscraper" was calqued in dozens of other languages. Another notable example is the Latin weekday names, which came to be associated by ancient Germanic speakers with their own gods following a practice known as interpretatio germanica: the Latin "Day of Mercury", Mercurii dies (later "mercredi" in modern French), was borrowed into Late Proto-Germanic as the "Day of Wōđanaz" (*Wodanesdag), which became Wōdnesdæg in Old English, then "Wednesday" in Modern English.The term calque itself is a loanword from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy"), while the word loanword is a calque of the German noun Lehnwort. Calquing is distinct from phono-semantic matching: while calquing includes semantic translation, it does not consist of phonetic matching—i.e., of retaining the approximate sound of the borrowed word by matching it with a similar-sounding pre-existing word or morpheme in the target language.Proving that a word is a calque sometimes requires more documentation than does an untranslated loanword because, in some cases, a similar phrase might have arisen in both languages independently. This is less likely to be the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the borrowing language, or when the calque contains less obvious imagery.

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1. calque

   A calque is a word or phrase borrowed from another language through a literal, word-for-word, translation. It is also known as a loan translation. It involves transferring the elements of a word into the same elements in the borrowing language. For example, the English phrase "flea market" is a calque of the French phrase "marché aux puces", which translates literally as "market of fleas".

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1. Calqueverb

   see 2d Calk, v. t

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1. Calque

   In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation. Used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. "Calque" is a loanword from a French noun, and derives from the verb "calquer". "Loanword" is a calque of the German "Lehnwort", just as "loan translation" is of "Lehnübersetzung". Proving that a word is a calque sometimes requires more documentation than does an untranslated loanword, since in some cases a similar phrase might have arisen in both languages independently. This is less likely to be the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the language proposed to be borrowing, or the calque contains less obvious imagery. Calquing is distinct from phono-semantic matching. While calquing includes translation, it does not consist of phonetic matching.

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Anagrams for calque »

1. claque

How to pronounce calque?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of calque in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of calque in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=calque
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Calque
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calque
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=calque