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calque::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | calque formation, loan translation |
| Type of | expression, locution, saying |
`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'.
Examples of calque
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If the phrase is translated word-for-word, it is known as a calque.
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The current title sounds like a Romance language calque.
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The fun fact is, quoting Japanese people claiming a Chinese word as a calque of Japanese sounded really biased.
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It is undue, and it is logically impossible to prove something's nonexistence, so proving it is not a calque is impossible.
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Bushmeat initially referred to the hunting of wild animals in West and Central Africa and is a calque from the Frenchviande de brousse.
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This is a calque of Occitan se cal.
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By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself.
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Calque entails taking an expression, breaking it down to individual elements and translating each element into the target language word for word.
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Tibetan has used Devanagari writing since 600 AD, but has preferred to calque new religious and technical vocabulary from native morphemes rather than borrowing Indian ones.
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- An expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"
- In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") or root-for-root translation.
- (calquing) loan translation
- (CALQUING) The adopting of a phrase or compound by the target language as a literal translation of the corresponding components of the phrase or compound appearing in the source language, e.g. "Black Forest" - from the German "Schwarzwald" - or "world-view" - from the German "Weltanschauung". ...
- An expression formed by individually translating parts of a longer foreign expression and then combining them in a way that may or may not make literal sense in the new language. ...
- The literal translation of a word from one language into the lexicon of another (cf. Borrowing). One example is the Mandarin Chinese term nan pengyou (literally male friend), a direct translation of the English word boyfriend.
