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English

Etymology
From F. #French|calque < It. calcare

Pronunciation
IPA|/kælk/
audio|en-us-calque.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|ælk

Noun
en-noun

1. A word-for-word translation of a saying or a morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word from one language to another.

::The word watershed is a calque from German Wasserscheide.

Synonyms
loan translation

Translations
trans-top|word-for-word translation
Croatian: kalk m
Finnish: käännöslaina
German: Lehnübersetzung f
Icelandic: lánsþýðing f
trans-mid
Italian: calco m
Portuguese: decalque lingüístico m
Russian: кал�ка f
Spanish: calco m
trans-bottom

Verb
en-verb|calques|calquing|calqued

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

Translations
trans-top|to adopt a word by translation of its parts
Icelandic: lánsþýða
trans-mid
Russian: кал�ки�ова�� f
trans-bottom

See also
loan word
pedialite|Calque

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tr:calque

• 2007-08-14 17:21 - Ivan Å tambuk - +Croatian translation

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