loan translation
English
Etymology
Calque of German Lehnübersetzung.
Noun
loan translation (plural loan translations)
- Synonym of calque
- 2007, Alexander Onysko, Anglicisms in German:
- 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).
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Translations
calque — see calque
See also
- loanword
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