calque

From French calque (“calque/loan translation”), from French calquer (“to trace”), from Italian calcare. See also Etymology 2 of calk

• IPA^(key): /kælk/

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• Rhymes: -ælk
• Homophones: calc, calk

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.

   The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".

• loan translation

• Hobson-Jobson
• loanword
• metaphrase

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

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

• claque

calque

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

Deverbal of calquer.

• 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

• “calque” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• claque, claqué

• Rhymes: -awki

calque

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of calcar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of calcar
3. third-person singular imperative of calcar

calque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calcar.