ALL meanings of calque
calque
C c - noun calque a borrowing by which a specialized meaning of a word or phrase in one language is transferred to another language by a literal translation of each of the individual elements (Ex.: masterpiece, from German meisterstück) 3
- noun calque Originate or function as a loan translation of. 1
- noun calque a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula. 1
- noun calque loanshift. 1
- verb with object calque to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation. 1
- noun calque A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. 0
- verb calque (Transitive Verb) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. 0