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Definition of calquing in English English dictionary
- loan translation
- Present participle of calque
- calque
- A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language
- calque
- an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language Same as "loan translation " "Superman," from the German word "Ubermensch " See also: loan translation, loanword, Wanderwort
- calque
- {f} form a word or expression using the process of loan translation
- calque
- {i} loan translation, word or expression introduced to one language as a direct literal translation from another language
- calque
- See 2d Calk, v
- calque
- A loan translation A process of using native elements to express a foreign term The native elements match the meanings and structure of the foreign terms e g , television > Ger Fernseher, Ger Weltanschauung > Eng world view
- calque
- To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts
- calque
- A word-for-word translation of a saying or a morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word from one language to another
- calque
- an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language