calque
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
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calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)
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Deverbal from calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).
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