单词 | calque |
释义 | calque[ kalk ] / kælk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR calque ON THESAURUS.COM nouna loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as Germanhalbinsel for peninsula. loanshift. verb (used with object), calqued, cal·quing.to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation. Origin of calque1655–65; <French, noun derivative of calquer to copy, base on <Italian calcare to trace over, tread <Latin: to trample Words nearby calquecalpac, calpain, Calpe, calPERS, Calpurnia, calque, Caltanissetta, Caltech, caltrop, caltrop family, calumet Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for calquecalque / (kælk) / nounanother word for loan translation verb calques, calquing or calqued(tr) another word for calk 3 Word Origin for calqueC20: from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin calcāre to tread Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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