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Definition of calque in English: calquenoun kalkkælk Linguistics another term for loan translation Example sentencesExamples - In either case, English-speakers may have adopted the phrase via a direct, word-for-word translation of the German idiom; linguists call this a calque.
- Yesterday, Geraint Jennings pointed out that the ‘flights’ of drinks offered on upscale restaurant menus are a calque of French ‘volée ’, which has been borrowed directly as volley.
- So ‘butt naked’ would be a straightforward calque of a common expression whose word for ‘butt’ had dropped out of the language.
- A calque or loan-translation is a borrowing of a compound word from another language where each component is translated into native words and then joined together.
- Anyway, Joe has been doing French calques for sixteen years.
verbkalkkælk be calqued onLinguistics Originate or function as a loan translation of. 由仿造词而来；起仿造词作用 ‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on French ‘cela va sans dire’ Example sentencesExamples - In addition, 103 main entries are borrowed from personal or place names, and 70 further entries are calqued on models in foreign languages.
- Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
- He is aware that the French in the above poem is purposefully calqued on English, rather than based on standard French.
- The most plausible explanation of its origin seems to be that it came in via American English, calqued on German ‘hoffentlich’.
- The Kriyol system has changed from a system calqued on Mandika to a system closer to Portuguese.
Origin1930s: from French, literally 'copy, tracing', from calquer 'to trace', via Italian from Latin calcare 'to tread'. Definition of calque in US English: calquenounkælkkalk Linguistics another term for loan translation Example sentencesExamples - So ‘butt naked’ would be a straightforward calque of a common expression whose word for ‘butt’ had dropped out of the language.
- In either case, English-speakers may have adopted the phrase via a direct, word-for-word translation of the German idiom; linguists call this a calque.
- Anyway, Joe has been doing French calques for sixteen years.
- A calque or loan-translation is a borrowing of a compound word from another language where each component is translated into native words and then joined together.
- Yesterday, Geraint Jennings pointed out that the ‘flights’ of drinks offered on upscale restaurant menus are a calque of French ‘volée ’, which has been borrowed directly as volley.
verbkælkkalk be calqued onLinguistics Originate or function as a loan translation of. 由仿造词而来；起仿造词作用 “it goes without saying” is calqued on French “cela va sans dire” Example sentencesExamples - The Kriyol system has changed from a system calqued on Mandika to a system closer to Portuguese.
- In addition, 103 main entries are borrowed from personal or place names, and 70 further entries are calqued on models in foreign languages.
- He is aware that the French in the above poem is purposefully calqued on English, rather than based on standard French.
- The most plausible explanation of its origin seems to be that it came in via American English, calqued on German ‘hoffentlich’.
- Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
Origin1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’. |