simple past tense and past participle of calque

(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

(linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

plural of calque

plural of calquing

present participle of calque

loan translation

plural of partial calque

(linguistics) A compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements; a loanblend.

Synonym of semantic loan