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plural calques
(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language. examples
third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued
(linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. examples