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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

"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...

"the knowledge of what is certain"), was not a loanword from Greek but a calque via Latin. He also replaced the word chemie, the Dutch for chemistry, by...

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

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

in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi (石橋), meaning 'stone bridge'...

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

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...

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

/ Црна Гора; Albanian: Mali i Zi) English name derives from a Venetian calque of the Montenegrin phrase "Crna Gora", meaning literally "Black Mountain"...

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...

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

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...

directly loaned from Russian, as is the German Politbüro. Chinese uses a calque (Chinese: 政治局; pinyin: Zhèngzhìjú), from which the Vietnamese (Bộ Chính...

The Land of Fire (Azerbaijani: Odlar Yurdu) is the adopted motto of Azerbaijan. The etymology of the phrase is thought to be related to Atropates, who...

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

culture that emerged during French colonisation. Beer in Vietnamese is bia, calqued from French bière. Some beer brands or beer types that are popular in Vietnam...