Look up calque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language...

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...

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...

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...

England: Tolkien carefully constructed the Shire as an element-by-element calque upon England. There are other connections; Tolkien equated the latitude...

commonplace is a calque of locus communis, itself a calque of Greek κοινός τόπος. subject matter is a calque of subiecta māteria, itself a calque of Aristotle's...

calx, "heel". From this same source comes calque, also known as a loan translation. One common example of a calque is brainwashing (from Mandarin Chinese...

racially loaded barbs at the Mexico–US border. "Frijolero" is a facetious calque of "beaner", an insulting American English term for a Mexican; the American...

term in philology.[dubious – discuss] It was possibly a calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio. Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface...