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Definition of calque noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

calque

noun
 
/kælk/
 
/kælk/
(also loan translation)
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  1. a word or expression in a language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language
    • ‘Traffic calming’ is a calque of the German ‘Verkehrsberuhigung’.
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    Word Origin1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’.
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