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A form of borrowing from one language to another whereby the semantic components of a given term are literally translated into their equivalents in the borrowing language. English superman, for example, is a loan translation from German Übermensch. Also called calque.
loan translation
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(Linguistics) the adoption by one language of a phrase or compound word whose components are literal translations of the components of a corresponding phrase or compound in a foreign language English ``superman'' is a loan translation from German ``Übermensch.'' Also called calque
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Noun1.loan translation - an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"
calque, calque formation
locution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
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3) There are also loan translations or caiques, by which the idea expressed in the Chinese language is conveyed more or less literally with English words.
Chinese loanwords in the OED by De La Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The phrase by these presents (meaning 'by this document') is still encountered in a fuller form, "Know all men by these presents" (a loan translation of the Latin noverint universi per praesentes), suggesting a Norman or earlier origin.
Affiant Saith further nought by Abate, Frank / Verbatim
Philologically, this occurrence, by which Greek pempte ousia was translated, element by element, into Latin quinta essentia, is known as a loan translation, or calque, a word derived from French calque 'an imitation or tracing,' insofar as one language is transposing the elements of another language into its own elements.
Alchemical calques or the transmutation of language by Schleifer, Rob / Verbatim
 
 
 
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