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Calques, also known as loan translations, are words or expressions borrowed from another language through a literal translation. English receives many calques from French, such as "free verse" from "vers libre". German has also contributed calques to English like "antibody" from "Antikörper" and "earworm" from "Ohrwurm". Calques can also come from Latin, like "commonplace" from "locus communis", and other languages including Spanish, Greek, Swedish, and Dutch. Languages also adopt calques from English through loan translations.

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Calque S

Calques, also known as loan translations, are words or expressions borrowed from another language through a literal translation. English receives many calques from French, such as "free verse" from "vers libre". German has also contributed calques to English like "antibody" from "Antikörper" and "earworm" from "Ohrwurm". Calques can also come from Latin, like "commonplace" from "locus communis", and other languages including Spanish, Greek, Swedish, and Dutch. Languages also adopt calques from English through loan translations.

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Calques/ loan translations

Calque/ loan translation: a word or an

expression borrowed from another language by way of literal translation. E.g. superman is a calque for the German bermensch.

English gets most of its loan translations from French: Free verse calques vers libre. Old guard calques vieille garde (the most senior regiments of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon I) Flea market calques march aux puces Marriage of convenience calques French mariage de convenance New Wave (artistic period) calques Nouvelle Vague Rhinestone calques caillou du Rhin ("Rhine pebble) That goes without saying calques cela va sans dire] Point of view calques point de vue Forget-me-not calques ne m'oubliez mye J. R. R. Tolkien used the name "Bag End" as a calque of "cul-de-sac," to poke fun at the British use of French terms.

From German:
Antibody calques Antikrper Beer garden calques Biergarten Earworm calques Ohrwurm Foreword perhaps calques Vorwort Homesickness calques Heimweh Intelligence quotient calques Intelligenzquotien Loan translation calques Lehnbersetzung Loanword calques Lehnwort Motorway calques Autobahn Overman and superman (i.e., self-transcending human) calque bermensch Rainforest calques Regenwald Standpoint (point of view) calques Standpunkt Thought experiment calques Gedankenexperiment Watershed calques Wasserscheide Worldview calques German Weltanschauung World war calques Weltkrieg

From Latin:
Commonplace calques locus commnis (referring to a
generally applicable literary passage), which itself is a calque of Greek koinos topos. Devil's advocate calques advoctus diabol, referring to an official appointed to present arguments against a proposed canonization or beatification in the Catholic Church Wisdom tooth calques dns sapientiae Milky Way calques via lactea Rest in Peace calques requiescat in pace In a nutshell calques in nuce

From other languages:


Spanish

Blue-blood calques sangre azul Moment of truth calques el momento de la verdad,


which refers to the time of the final sword thrust in a bullfight Greek Gospel calques evangelion (good news)

Swedish/Norwegian Hotdish calques varmrett/varmrtt


Dutch

Pineapple calques pijnappel Superconductor calques supergeleider Masterpiece meesterstuk

Spanish calques from English


hombre rana ("frogman") alto el fuego ("cease-fire") lavaplatos ("dishwasher") luna de miel ("honeymoon") salvaje Oeste ("wild West") disco duro ("hard disk") banco de datos ("data bank").

Catalan calques from English


cursa de barrils (horse-riding) calques
barrel racing estira-i-empeny calques push-pull device ordinador de butxaca calques pocket computer sndrome del cremat calques burnout syndrome

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