The story
- Latin · derived fromcalcāre“to tread”
- Italian · derived fromcalcare
- French · learned borrowing fromcalque“calque”
- English todaycalque
Learned borrowing 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.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.