- Look up
calque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a
calque (/kælk/) or loan
translation is a word or
phrase borrowed from
another language...
- list
contains examples of
calques in
various languages.
Running dog
calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu.
brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo...
- In linguistics, an
etymological calque is a
lexical item
calqued from
another language by
replicating the
etymology of the
borrowed lexical item although...
- eats
bread with you"),
first attested in the
Salic law (c. AD 500) as a
calque of the
Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"),
related to...
- pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a
Louisiana French phrase. The
phrase is a
calque of the
English phrase "let the good
times roll", that is, a word-for-word...
-
liverwurst is a
partial calque of
German Leberwurst (pronounced [ˈleːbɐˌvʊʁst] ) 'liver sausage', and 'liver sausage', a full
calque. A
fourteenth century...
- term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was
possibly a
calque of
German Vorwort,
itself a
calque of
Latin praefatio.
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commonplace is a
calque of
locus communis,
itself a
calque of Gr**** κοινός τόπος.
subject matter is a
calque of
subiecta māteria,
itself a
calque of Aristotle's...
- philosophy, and mathematics.
English continues to gain new
loanwords and
calques ("loan translations") from
languages all over the world, and
words from...
- "children's garden"). The word
calque is a loanword,
while the word
loanword is a
calque:
calque comes from the
French noun
calque ("tracing; imitation; close...
