calque

Meanings

1. A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

1. To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

Etymology

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.