calque en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /kælk/
Etymology
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
Meanings
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A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
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.”)
2023 July 26, Patricia Mazzei, “‘Get Down’ From the Car. ‘Make’ the Line. Is Miami English a Dialect?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2023:One of the primary benefits of calque is its ability to enhance cross-cultural communication.
2024 June 7, Soumaya Amine Al Salti, “Calque Examples in Translating: Impacts on Linguistic Diversity”, in Soumaya Salti, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025: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 […]
2005 March 27, William Safire, “Kifaya!”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| calques | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
loanword · partial calque · loanblend · Hobson-Jobson
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Translations (62)
cmn 仿譯 /仿译 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · nb oversettingslån (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · yue 借譯 /借译 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ka კალკი (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ko 번역차용 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · eo tradukprunto (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · tr öyküntü (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · be ка́лька (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sq kalk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · yi קאַלקע (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fa گرتهبرداری (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · cmn 借譯 /借译 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · nb oversettelseslån (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ar تَرْجَمَة اِقْتِرَاضِيَّة (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sl kalk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · nl leenvertaling (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sh kȁlk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · hy բառապատճեն (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · el μεταφραστικό δάνειο (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · da oversættelseslån (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · mk преведеница (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · el εκτύπωμα (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · pl kalka (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fo umsetingarlán (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ca calc (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fo týðingarlán (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · is tökuþýðing (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · pt decalque linguístico (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ga lomaistriúchán (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fr calque (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · cmn 仿造詞 /仿造词 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ro calc (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · th แคลเก้ (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · eo kalkeo (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fi käännöslaina (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · hu tükörfordítás (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · cy cyfieithiad benthyg (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · es calco (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sv översättningslån (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · af calque (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ja 翻訳借用 (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · br drevezadenn (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · af leenvertaling (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · de Lehnübersetzung (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · fo tøkutýðing (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · uk ка́лька (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · lv kalks (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · id pinjam terjemah (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · cs kalk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · hu kalk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · pt decalque (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · mk калка (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sh ка̏лк (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · nn omsetjingslån (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · hu tükörszó (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · it calco (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · ru ка́лька (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · az hərfi tərcümə (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · eo paŭso (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · az kalka (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · bg ка́лка (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language) · sk kalk (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)