Definitions from Wiktionary (calque)

▸ noun:  (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.
▸ verb:  (linguistics, translation studies, transitive) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.




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