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calque
[ kalk ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
calqued, calquing.
- to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation.
calque
/ 办忙濒办 /
noun
- another word for loan translation
verb
- tr another word for calk 3
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of calque1
1655鈥65; < French, noun derivative of calquer to copy, base on < Italian calcare to trace over, tread < Latin: to trample
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of calque1
C20: from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin 肠补濒肠腻谤别 to tread
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This done, one of the knights closed his visor, and the other tried to follow his example, but the calque, dented from the effects of a blow, refused to allow the visor to descend.
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Nothing short of the breaking of the laces of the Frenchman's calque would release the man, and even then his unprotected head would be pierced by a ready arrow.
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