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  1. Calque - Wikipedia

    • In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, “to calque” means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. For instance, the English word skyscr… See more

    Types

    One system classifies calques into five groups. This terminology is not universal:
    • Phraseological calques:
    • Syntactic … See more

    Examples

    The common English phrase "flea market" is a loan translation of the French marché aux puces ("market with fleas"). At least 22 other languages calque the French expression directly or indirectly through another lan… See more

    History

    Since at least 1894, according to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, the French term calque has been used in its linguistic sense, namely in a publication by Louis Duvau:
    Since at le… See more

    See also

    • Anglicism
    • Chinese Pidgin English
    • Cognate
    • Gallicism
    • Germanism… See more

     
  1. 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. When used as a verb, “to calque” means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
    In linguistics, a calque (or loan translation) can be defined as a word-for-word translation from one language into another. For example, when you take a phrase in French and then literally translate root-for-root or word-for-word into English, that’s a calque.
    www.getblend.com/blog/calque-loan-translation/
    The term calque is borrowed from French and it derives from the verb calquer which means to copy, to trace. More specifically, we use the verb to calque when speaking about borrowing a word or phrase from another language while translating its components so as to create a new lexeme in the target language.
    translatorthoughts.com/2016/05/calque/
  2. Calque (linguistique) — Wikipédia

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  4. What Is a Loan Translation or Calque? - ThoughtCo

    Aug 1, 2018 · A loan translation is a compound in English (for example, superman) that literally translates a foreign expression (in this example, German Übermensch), word for word. Also known as a calque (from the French word …

  5. Translation Techniques: Calque - Translator Thoughts

    May 30, 2016 · In linguistics, a calque is actually a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word translation. The term calque is borrowed from French and it derives from the verb calquer which means to …

  6. Définitions : calque - Dictionnaire de français Larousse

  7. Définition de calque | Dictionnaire français - La langue …

    Feb 10, 2024 · Calque - Définition de France Terme. Image satellitaire destinée à être superposée à d'autres représentant la même scène à la même échelle pour obtenir une image composite.

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