Definition of Calques. Meaning of Calques. Synonyms of Calques

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Definition of Calques

calque
Calk Calk (k[a^]lk), v. t. [E. calquer to trace, It. caicare to trace, to trample, fr. L. calcare to trample, fr. calx heel. Cf. Calcarate.] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Written also calque]
Calque
Calque Calque, v. t. See 2d Calk, v. t.

Meaning of Calques from wikipedia

- calques: idiomatic phrases are translated word for word. For example, "it goes without saying" calques the French ça va sans dire. Syntactic calques:...
- 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...
- being borrowed.: pp.43-45  Most calques are not etymological.: p.45  For example, the English compound basketball was calqued, conventionally, into Standard...
- 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...
- of diffusion throughout Mesoamerica is provided by a number of semantic calques widely found throughout the area. For example, in many Mesoamerican languages...
- structural change.[page needed] The use of calques is common throughout most languages, evident in the calques of Arabic exclamations used in Spanish. Examples:...
- P'atrás expressions are unique as a calque of an English verbal particle, since other phrasal verbs are almost never calqued into Spanish. Because of this,...
- lexical items) from another language, very similar to the formation of calques. In this case, however, the complete word in the borrowing language already...
- Clackson. p. 152. Eleanor Detreville, "An Overview of Latin Morphological Calques on Gr**** Technical Terms: Formation and Success", M.A. thesis, University...
- 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...