Adjacent Words

calque definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'" [syn: calque, calque formation, loan translation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, literally, copy, from calquer to trace, from Italian calcare to trample, trace, from Latin, to trample — more at caulk Date: 1937 loan translation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Philol. = loan-translation. Etymology: F, = copy, tracing f. calquer trace ult. f. L calcare tread

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Calque Calque, v. t. See 2d Calk, v. t.