loan translation en · NOUN
Etymology
From loan + translation, calque of German Lehnübersetzung.
Meanings
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(countable, qualifier:result of act or process) 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).
2007, Alexander Onysko, Anglicisms in German:
- (qualifier:act or process, uncountable) Synonym of calquing.
Forms
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