(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another on purpose instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.

plural of borrow pit

(construction, civil engineering) A pit dug to extract material (such as soil, gravel, or sand) for use at another location.

(Ireland, Scotland) The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.

plural of learned borrowing

plural of false borrowing

Synonym of pseudo-loan

A pseudo-loan. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, borrowing.

plural of pseudo-borrowing

plural of learnèd borrowing