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Definition of calque

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 calque from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- In linguistics, an etymological calque is a lexical item calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexical item although...
- term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was possibly a calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio. Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface...
- England: Tolkien carefully constructed the Shire as an element-by-element calque upon England. There are other connections; Tolkien equated the latitude...
- Turkish and Ladino: kaza Armenian: աւան (awan, a calque meaning "borough") Bulgarian: околия (okoliya, a calque meaning "district") and кааза̀ (kaazà) French:...
- 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...
- 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...
- commonplace is a calque of locus communis, itself a calque of Gr**** κοινός τόπος. subject matter is a calque of subiecta māteria, itself a calque of Aristotle's...
- eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law (c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"), related to...