Definitions for calques

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calques calque

Spelling: [kalk]

IPA: /kælk/

Calques is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in calques (acelqsu).

Definitions for calques

noun

1. 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.
2. loanshift.

verb (used with object)

1. to form (a word or phrase) through the process of loan translation.

Origin of calques

1655-65; French, noun derivative of calquer to copy, base on Italian calcare to trace over, tread Latin: to trample