It's a calque.
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Calque
/kælk/
Synonyms for "calque" (22 found)
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Noun(4 words)
loan translationcalque formationcalque phenomenoncomponent calque
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Noun(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
french tourneur
Related words (11)
Noun(10 words)
loan translateloan translation conceptloanwordsrender literallystructural calquetranslate by loantranslate literallytranslated loantranslation loanword for word translate
Adjective(1 words)
romanian continent
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7 entriescompound calquedirect translationlexical calquemorphological calquephonological calquephrasal calquesemantic calque
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10 entriescalque strategycalque termcalque translationdirect translationlexical calquelinguistic calqueliteral translationloan translationsemantic calqueword for word translation
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6 total sentences available.
"Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.
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David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]
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Those phrases, translated from Spanish, are known as calques. […] The three young Miamians in the video also use “super” as an adverb, one of the calques from Spanish mentioned in Dr. Carter’s research. (“Ay, I’m super bloated.”)
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