calque
Meaning of calque
noun
- 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".
verb
To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
Information about calque
- The plural form of calque is: calques.
- Languages in which calque is used:
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calque
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- calque is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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