calque

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”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.

• IPA^(key): /kælk/

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• Rhymes: -ælk
• Homophones: calc, calk
• Hyphenation: calque

calque (plural calques)

1. (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

• partial calque

• Hobson-Jobson
• loanword

• While the term calque is a loanword from French, the term loanword is a calque from the German compound noun Lehnwort.

• metaphrase

calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)

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

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “calque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “calque”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “calque”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• claque

calque

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of calcar

Deverbal from calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).

• IPA^(key): /kalk/

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calque m (plural calques)

1. tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
2. (lexicography) calque, loan translation
3. (computer graphics) layer

• → 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)

• “calque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• claque, claqué

calque

1. inflection of calcar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Hyphenation: cal‧que
• Rhymes: -alkɨ, -awki

calque

1. inflection of calcar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

calque

1. inflection of calcar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative