calque
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For example, did you know the difference between a loanword and a calque?
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2013
By the way, I knew the difference between a loanword and a calque and the Defiant Ones, but not what was going on in the car with Giardia.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2013
This done, one of the knights closed his visor, and the other tried to follow his example, but the calque, dented from the effects of a blow, refused to allow the visor to descend.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The French didn’t have a word for the flower, so they too borrowed the concept of “lion’s tooth,” calquing it as “dent de lion.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
