calque

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[kalk], (Noun)

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Origin:
1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’


[kalk], (Verb)

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- originate or function as a loan translation of
(e.g: ‘it goes without saying’ is calqued on French ‘cela va sans dire’)


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Origin:
1930s: from French, literally ‘copy, tracing’, from calquer ‘to trace’, via Italian from Latin calcare ‘to tread’




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