Meanings
plural loan translations
- countableresult of act or processSynonym of calque.
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To support his definition, Betz discusses various examples of loan translation from Latin and English as in German Wolkenkratzer after English skyscraper, Gegengift ('antidote') after Latin contravenenum, Mitleid ('compasssion') after Latin compassio, and Gewissen ('conscience') after Latin conscientia (1949: 27,32).
2007, Alexander Onysko, Anglicisms in GermanSynonyms: calque
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of calque.
nounSynonym of calquing.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- GermanLehnübersetzung
- Englishloan translation
From loan + translation, calque of German Lehnübersetzung.
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