calques
Meaning of calques
plural noun
another term for loan translation.
verb, 3rd person present- originate or function as a loan translation of.
‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on French ‘cela va sans dire’
1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’.
Information about calques
- The singular form of calques is: calque.
- Languages in which calques is used:
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calques
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- calques is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of calques
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