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calque (k lk)
[French, from calquer, to trace, copy, from Italian calcare, to press, from Latin calc re, to tread on, from calx, heel.] |
calque [kælk]vb calques, calquing, calqued (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (tr) another word for calk3[from French: a tracing, from calquer, from Latin calcāre to tread]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | calque - an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"locution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" |
Translations calque [kælk] N → calco m ( on de)
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| It is indeed a tendency in many countries that the creation of new terminologies is based on the deliberate and conscious use of word-formation patterns or methods such as borrowing, compounding, derivation, loan translation or calquing, semantic shift, blending, clipping, et cetera (Finlayson & Madiba, 2002). The word "calque" is very useful for understanding this chapter, but it is only through Shippey's summarization of the connections between the two works that the calquing becomes straightforward; Tolkien's use of the first third of Beowulf as a source for the Meduseld scenes actually forms, on closer examination, a concerted and pervasive rhetoric, built upon the calquing function. Word-formation processes in Middle English Halliday (1978: 87) has observed that in the field of scientific terminology there are seven strategies for lexico-semantic innovation, namely, reinterpretation of existing words, creation of new words from native resources, creation of new words from foreign resources, borrowing, calquing, creation of locutions and, finally, inventing new words. |
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