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Loaned translation of an expression
In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation
Calque
Lexical item replicating the etymology of a foreign lexical item
In linguistics, an etymological calque is a lexical item calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexical item although
Etymological_calque
list contains examples of calques in various languages. Running dog calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu. brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo
List_of_calques
commonplace is a calque of locus communis, itself a calque of Greek κοινός τόπος. subject matter is a calque of subiecta māteria, itself a calque of Aristotle's
English_words_of_Greek_origin
Word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
'children's garden'). The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close
Loanword
Linguistic process
lexical items) from another language. It is very similar to the formation of calques, excepting that in this case the complete word in the borrowing language
Semantic_loan
Administrative division historically used in the Ottoman Empire
Turkish and Ladino: kaza Armenian: աւան (awan, a calque meaning "borough") Bulgarian: околия (okoliya, a calque meaning "district") and кааза̀ (kaazà) French:
Kaza
Shaping of a text's meaning by another text in literary studies
through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between
Intertextuality
Chants used in the liturgies of the Western Christian Church
Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; Latin: cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When
Plainsong
One-eyed giants in Greek and Roman mythology
worked into the Odyssey", suggests the possibility that the name was a Greek calque on a foreign word which would have "instantly" suggested to ancient Greeks
Cyclopes
Argentina Chilean people Chinaman United States, Canada Chinese people A calque of the Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction
List_of_ethnic_slurs
Day of the week
French mercredi, Spanish miércoles or Italian mercoledì, the day's name is a calque of Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury'. Wednesday is in the middle of the
Wednesday
Transfer of the meaning of something in one language into another
"spill-overs", however, have sometimes imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. Since the 1940s, efforts
Translation
Fictional region of hobbits
England: Tolkien carefully constructed the Shire as an element-by-element calque upon England. There are other connections; Tolkien equated the latitude
The_Shire
Japanese multinational manufacturing corporation
manufactures tires, as well as golf equipment. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of the founder's surname, meaning 'stone bridge'
Bridgestone
Chinese cultural, philosophical, and political concept
Tianxia (Chinese: 天下; pinyin: Tiānxià; lit. '[everything] under Heaven'), in historical Chinese cultural understanding, is either the entire geographical
Tianxia
Type of sausage
liverwurst is a partial calque of German Leberwurst (pronounced [ˈleːbɐˌvʊʁst] ) lit. 'liver sausage'; and 'liver sausage' is a full calque thereof. A fourteenth-century
Liverwurst
Formal assembly (typically ecclesiastical or academic)
A convocation (from Latin convocare 'to call/come together', a rough calque of Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a specific
Convocation
Flemish mathematician scientist and music theorist (1548–1620)
"the knowledge of what is certain"), was not a loanword from Greek but a calque via Latin. He also replaced the word chemie, the Dutch for chemistry, by
Simon_Stevin
Mythical trousers in Icelandic folklore
Nábrók or nábuxur (calqued as necropants, literally "corpse breeches") are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead human, which are believed in Icelandic
Nábrók
Sino-Tibetan language
primarily translated into Chinese in one of three ways: free translation (calques), phonetic translation (by sound), or a combination of the two. Today,
Chinese_language
Town in Constanța, Romania
Cyrillic), meaning 'black water'. This name is regarded by some scholars as a calque of the earlier Thracian name Axíopa, from IE *n̥ksei 'dark' and upā 'water'
Cernavodă
Northwest Semitic language
Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international words. Despite
Hebrew_language
Lake in Alberta, Canada
Lake Water Aerodrome is located on this lake. Cooking Lake's name is a calque of its Cree language name, opiminawasu. "Cooking Lake". Geographical Names
Cooking_Lake_(Alberta)
Indo-European concept of a supernatural realm
an otherside, is reconstructed in comparative mythology. Its name is a calque of orbis alius (Latin for "other world/side"), a term used by Lucan in his
Otherworld
Latin expression
rest'; thus, the expression translates to 'and the rest'. Et cetera is a calque (loanword/phrase) of the Koine Greek καὶ τὰ ἕτερα (kai ta hetera) meaning
Et_cetera
Administrative division of a country that is headed by a governor
governors either states or provinces, the term governorate is typically used to calque divisions of non-English-speaking administrations. The most common usage
Governorate
Media altered from its original state
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Remix
90° angle (π/2 radians)
the adjacent angles are equal, then they are right angles. The term is a calque of Latin angulus rectus; here rectus means "upright", referring to the vertical
Right_angle
Name list
and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning 'given'. The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theódoros (Theodore, Theodosius) or Hebrew Matthew with the same
Bogdan
Euphemism for murder or assassination
expression and the similar wet job, wet affair, or wet operation are all calques of Russian terms for such activities and can be traced to criminal slang
Wetwork
Louisiana French expression
pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word
Laissez_les_bons_temps_rouler
Residence of one or more priests or ministers of religion
if appropriate. In the Philippines, the term convent is used, a direct calque of the Spanish convento. An ecclesiastical residence, sometimes called a
Clergy_house
Musical note duration
upon Latin semi- "half" and brevis "short." The American whole note is a calque of the German ganze Note. Some languages derive the name of the note from
Whole_note
Branch of philosophy relating to the material world
as distinct from 'mind' or 'form'. The image of wood came to Latin as a calque from the ancient Greek philosophical usage of hyle (ὕλη). In ancient Greek
Philosophy_of_matter
Pun that utilizes words or phrases from multiple languages
portmanteau of the name Mario and "war", or as a flip of the M in "Mario". Calque Code mixing Eggcorn Homophonic translation Lists of English words by country
Bilingual_pun
Topics referred to by the same term
Žalgiris is the Lithuanian-language calque of the Polish placename Grunwald, notable for the Battle of Grunwald (Lithuanian: Žalgirio mūšis, lit. 'Battle
Žalgiris
Topics referred to by the same term
symplectic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term "symplectic" is a calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer
Symplectic
1876 opera by Richard Wagner
the first complete performance of the whole work. The title is a German calque of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied
Götterdämmerung
Dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland
as spoken in Sweden and strongly phrased advice against loanwords and calques from Finnish, which are usually incomprehensible to Swedes. In the spoken
Finland_Swedish
Mountain in Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Dabajian (Chinese: 大霸尖山; pinyin: Dàbàjiān Shān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-pà-chiam san calque of Atayal: Papak Waqa "towering ear", Saisiyat: Kapatalayan) is located
Mount_Dabajian
High-performance luxury car
DB5, are considered classic examples of grand tourers. The term is a near-calque from the Italian language phrase gran turismo, which became popular in the
Grand_tourer
Species of legume
referred to as gliricidia or by its Spanish common name madre de cacao (calque of Nahuatl cacahuanāntli; also anglicized as mother of cocoa), is a medium
Gliricidia_sepium
Name list
The name Alexandre emerged in Galician, Portuguese, and Catalan through a calque from Old Galician-Portuguese, which was derived from the French form inaugural
Alexandre_(given_name)
Spanish variety spoken in Gibraltar
P'atrás expressions are unique as a calque of an English verbal particle, since other phrasal verbs are almost never calqued into Spanish. Because of this,
Llanito
Chinese phrase for an ineffectual threat
"Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎). The term refers to something or someone that
Paper_tiger
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
the 16th and 17th centuries, it was transferred to other languages as a calque: Icelandic: svarti dauði, German: der schwarze Tod, and French: la mort
Black_Death
Later version of a song already established with an earlier performer
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Cover_version
Species of plant
common names Vietnamese coriander, rau răm (from Vietnamese), laksa leaf (calque from Malay daun laksa), Vietnamese cilantro, phak phai (from Thai: ผักแพว)
Persicaria_odorata
Name list
the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints Faith, Hope and Charity. Russian: Любовь
Lyubov
Idiom of using someone else's idea for one's own advantage
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Stealing_thunder
Hottest part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere. The English name is a calque of the Latin dies caniculares (lit. 'the puppy days'), itself a calque of the ancient Greek κυνάδες ἡμέραι
Dog_days
Name list
and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning 'given'. The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theódoros (Theodore, Theodosius). The name also appears as a
Bohdan_(name)
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Kravets
Association or collection of individuals
eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law (c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"), related to
Company
Vacation after the wedding to celebrate recent marriage
many modern languages, the word for a honeymoon is a calque (e.g., French: lune de miel) or near-calque.[citation needed] Persian has a similar word, mah-e-asal
Honeymoon
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Schrott
Group of languages spoken in Mesoamerica
of diffusion throughout Mesoamerica is provided by a number of semantic calques widely found throughout the area. For example, in many Mesoamerican languages
Mesoamerican_language_area
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader
meaning "The Messiah". The term derives from the Greek Χριστός (Christos), a calque of the Hebrew word משיח (mashiakh), transliterated into English as messiah
Jesus
Type of fiction created by fans of the original subject
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Fan_fiction
Name list
the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints Faith, Hope and Charity. A Russian-language
Nadezhda_(given_name)
Repetition of other people's original jokes without credit
comics have defended their re-use of other people's jokes as satire or as a calque (word-for-word translation). Other comics have claimed that their re-use
Joke_theft
Sea in northern Europe
Finnish, a Finnic language, uses the term Itämeri "East Sea", possibly a calque from a Germanic language. As the Baltic is not particularly eastward in
Baltic_Sea
Stock character, notable for remaining composed in a comedic performance
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Straight_man
as a valid French expression even if some authors view it as a calque of pen name. Calque False etymology False cognate False friend Folk etymology Glossary
List of pseudo-French words in English
List_of_pseudo-French_words_in_English
Executive committee of a communist party
directly loaned from Russian, as is the German Politbüro. Chinese uses a calque (Chinese: 政治局; pinyin: Zhèngzhìjú), from which the Vietnamese (Bộ Chính
Politburo
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Kravchenko
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Schroeder
word веселка, meaning "rainbow". Віра (Vira [ˈwirɐ] ), meaning "faith", calque from Greek Πίστη (Piste). Гали́на (Halyna [ɦɐˈlɪnɐ] ), from Galene, of Greek
Ukrainian_name
Saviour or liberator of a group of people
mashaḥ, "to rub with oil, to anoint"; in the Septuagint the Hebrew word is calqued into χριστός, christos, "anointed", from the verb χρίω, chrio, "to rub
Messiah
West Germanic language
languages, such as Chinese, write words borrowed from English mostly as calques, while others, such as Japanese, readily take in English loanwords written
English_language
Mixture of the French and Spanish languages
first generation of immigrants who use it more so when speaking Spanish. Calques are introduced by bilinguals, switching from one language to another, words
Frespañol
Name list
forms such as Sandrelly, Sandriela, Sandriele, Sandriely, and others (a calque of the Italian Sandrella). List of people with given name Sandra Sander
Sandra_(given_name)
Reuse of sound recording in another recording
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Sampling_(music)
Class of speech sounds
definition often includes semivowels as well). The word liquid seems to be a calque of the Ancient Greek word ὑγρός (hygrós 'moist'), initially used by grammarian
Liquid_consonant
Introductory section of a book
originally as a term employed in philology,[dubious – discuss] possibly a calque of the German Vorwort, itself derived of the Latin praefatio. Afterword
Foreword
From the lexical point of view in Italian-Canadian, the phenomena of calques are also frequent, that is, "a particular type of borrowing for which in
Italian_language_in_Canada
Name list
the free dictionary. Alexandro is a masculine given name that served as a calque for Alessandro in Italian and Alejandro in Spanish, while also existing
Alexandro
Nordic dragon type
fly-dragon"). From Old Swedish, the term was borrowed into Finnish as a partial calque, there becoming louhikäärme, "louhi serpent". The fore element, flogh, was
Flogdrake
Disputed Slavic deities
which has been misidentified by modern scholars as a deity due to Helmold's calque of black god and white god into Latin as niger deus and bonus deus which
Chernobog_and_Belobog
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Shvets
Country in Southeast Europe
Albanian: Mali i Zi) English name is a literal translation from a Venetian calque of the Montenegrin phrase "Crna Gora", or "Black Mountain", deriving from
Montenegro
Type of professional criminal
informal authority over lower-status members. The phrase "thief in law" is a calque of the Russian slang phrase vor v zakone, literally translated as 'thief
Thief_in_law
Films based on other media (books, plays, etc.)
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Film_adaptation
Eastern European sour soup
"cheap like borscht" is the equivalent of "dirt cheap" (also attested as a calque in Yiddish and Canadian English), whereas adding "two mushrooms into borscht"
Borscht
Romance language historically spoken by Sephardi Jews
follows Spanish for most of its syntax. (That is not true of the written calque language involving word-for-word translations from Hebrew, which scholars
Judaeo-Spanish
Name list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Nader
City in Sicily, Italy
Arab wilayah (ولاية) or the Turkish vilayet (ولايت), used as it would be a calque of the English term shire Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto - listing
Noto
Ottoman unit of land area
dönüm, from the Ottoman Turkish dönmek (دونمك 'to turn'), appears to be a calque of the Byzantine Greek stremma and had the same size. It was likely adopted
Dunam
Any one of several team sports
However, the calque fótbolti is at least equally common. The Celtic languages also generally refer to association football with calques of "football"
Football_(word)
Vietnamese sausage
jɔ̄ː], moo yor; Lao: ຫມູຍໍ, [mǔː jɔ̄ː]), combining หมู, lit. 'pig', with a calque of giò. Giò lụa before being peeled Chả lụa being cut with a knife Sliced
Chả_lụa
Variety of French language
calque of Dutch Kom je mee?. Ça tire ici (used mostly in Brussels), for Standard French "Il y a un courant d'air") "There is a draught" is a calque of
Belgian_French
Interaction between different languages
effects on the language; these may include the borrowing of loanwords, calques, or other types of linguistic material. Multilingualism has been common
Language_contact
Deity in Buddhist mythology
Japanese: Jikokuten; Korean: 지국천 Jiguk cheon; Vietnamese: Trì Quốc Thiên, a calque of Sanskrit Dhṛtarāṣṭra Traditional Chinese: 提頭頼吒; Simplified Chinese: 提头赖吒;
Dhṛtarāṣṭra
Surname list
Yellen Yellin Origin of the surname Yellen/Yellin, including as a Yiddish calque of Slavic Jelen; from the Dictionary of American Family Names (2022) This
Jelen
Contrasting section of music
often called the bridge or release ", or boredom-breaker,. The term is a calque from a German word for bridge, Steg, used by the Meistersingers of the 15th
Bridge_(music)
Japanese playing cards
Description hongdan (홍단; 紅短), a calque of Japanese akatan (赤短), short for aka-tanzaku (赤短冊; "red tanzaku") cheongdan (청단; 靑短), a calque of Japanese aotan (青短)
Hanafuda
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Croitoru
Japanese plague deity, historically conflated with Susanoo
as Gavagrīva "Ox-Necked" or Gośirsa Devarāja "Ox-Headed Divine King" (a calque of 'Gozu Tennō'). From India, the deity's cult was supposedly transmitted
Gozu_Tennō
Živojinović to Serb immigrants to Canada. He performs under "Lifeson", a English calque of his birth name, which literally means "son of life". Lights – Born Valerie
List of musician and band name etymologies
List_of_musician_and_band_name_etymologies
CALQUE
CALQUE
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from the Latin personal name Christus ‘Christ’ (see Christian). The name Christ (Latin Christus) is from Greek Khristos, a derivative of khriein ‘to anoint’, a calque of Hebrew mashiach ‘Messiah’, which likewise means literally ‘the anointed’.English : variant of Crist.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Devon and Warwickshire called Welcombe, from Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + cumb ‘broad, straight valley’.English : nickname for a well-liked person or one noted for his hospitality, from Middle English welcume, a calque of Old French bienvenu or Old Norse velkominn.Translated form of Canadian French Bienvenue, found in New England.
CALQUE
CALQUE
Male
Italian
Italian form of Roman Latin Victorinus, VITTORINO means "conqueror."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Religious Person
Boy/Male
American, Basque, Chinese, French, German
Of Mars; The God of War
Boy/Male
Indian
Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
Indian
Servant of the responsive, Servant of the answerer
Girl/Female
Muslim
Guide
Girl/Female
Muslim
Light
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Moist; The Moon
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Happy and New; Lord Hanuman
Girl/Female
Indian
One who walks at a gentle pace
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
v. t.
See 2d Calk, v. t.