Definition of "calque" []

• See loan translation. (noun)

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• "Ringbom also suggests that misspellings, borrowings and coinage are transfer of form while calque is transfer of meaning."
• "Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture, in the sense that the previous editors presumed to be able to second-guess how Dostoyevsky's text would have looked were he to have written it at the time of republication, somewhat like those "plain text" editions of Shakespeare."
• "Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture"