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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024calque (kalk),USA pronunciation n., v., calqued, cal•quing. [Ling.]n. - Linguisticsa loan translation, esp. 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 German halbinsel for peninsula.
- Linguisticsloanshift.
v.t. - Linguisticsto form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation.
- Latin: to trample
- Italian calcare to trace over, tread
- French, noun, nominal derivative of calquer to copy, base on
- 1655–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: calque /kælk/ n - another word for loan translation
Etymology: 20th Century: from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin calcāre to tread |