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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of calque.

    "To support his definition, Betz discusses various examples of loan translation from Latin and English as in German Wolkenkratzer after English skyscraper, Gegengift ('antidote') after Latin contravenenum, Mitleid ('compasssion') after Latin compassio, and Gewissen ('conscience') after Latin conscientia (1949: 27,32)."

  2. 2
    an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language wordnet

Etymology

From loan + translation, calque of German Lehnübersetzung.

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