In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation...

In linguistics, an etymological calque is a lexical item calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexical item although...

list contains examples of calques in various languages. Running dog calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu. brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo...

"children's garden"). The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close...

commonplace is a calque of locus communis, itself a calque of Greek κοινός τόπος. subject matter is a calque of subiecta māteria, itself a calque of Aristotle's...

term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was possibly a calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio. Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface...

The Eternal Jew is a calque of the German Der Ewige Jude, referring to the Wandering Jew archetype. It may refer to: The Eternal Jew (play), a 1906 Yiddish-language...

England: Tolkien carefully constructed the Shire as an element-by-element calque upon England. There are other connections; Tolkien equated the latitude...

lexical items) from another language. It is very similar to the formation of calques, excepting that in this case the complete word in the borrowing language...

Argentina Chilean people Chinaman United States, Canada Chinese people A calque of the Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction...

Turkish and Ladino: kaza Armenian: աւան (awan, a calque meaning "borough") Bulgarian: околия (okoliya, a calque meaning "district") and кааза̀ (kaazà) French:...

French mercredi, Spanish miércoles or Italian mercoledì, the day's name is a calque of Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury'. Wednesday is in the middle of the...

Žalgiris is the Lithuanian-language calque of the Polish placename Grunwald, notable for the Battle of Grunwald (Lithuanian: Žalgirio mūšis, lit. 'Battle...

expression and the similar wet job, wet affair, or wet operation are all calques of Russian terms for such activities and can be traced to criminal slang...

eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law (c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"), related to...

philosophy, and mathematics. English continues to gain new loanwords and calques ("loan translations") from languages all over the world, and words from...

Tianxia, 'all under Heaven', is a Chinese term for a historical Chinese cultural concept that denoted either the entire geographical world or the metaphysical...

governors either states or provinces, the term governorate is typically used to calque divisions of non-English-speaking administrations. The most common usage...

upon Latin semi- "half" and brevis "short." The American whole note is a calque of the German ganze Note. Some languages derive the name of the note from...

liverwurst is a partial calque of German Leberwurst (pronounced [ˈleːbɐˌvʊʁst] ) lit. 'liver sausage'; and 'liver sausage' is a full calque thereof. A fourteenth...

take heavier casualties even in successful operations. "Shock troop" is a calque, a loose translation of the German word Stoßtrupp (literally "thrust squad"...

pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word...

an otherside, is reconstructed in comparative mythology. Its name is a calque of orbis alius (Latin for "other world/side"), a term used by Lucan in his...

Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international words. Despite...

symplectic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term "symplectic" is a calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer...

and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning 'given'. The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theódoros (Theodore, Theodosius) or Hebrew Matthew with the same...

effects on the language; these may include the borrowing of loanwords, calques, or other types of linguistic material. Multilingualism has been common...

through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between...

the adjacent angles are equal, then they are right angles. The term is a calque of Latin angulus rectus; here rectus means "upright", referring to the vertical...

as distinct from "mind" or "form". The image of wood came to Latin as a calque from the ancient Greek philosophical usage of hyle (ὕλη). In ancient Greek...