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calques

calques is the plural of calque.

calques is the third-person singular simple present indicative of calque.

Meaning of calque

Noun

calque (plural calques)

  1. A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
    • David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]2005 March 27, William Safire, “Kifaya!”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021

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Phrases with calques

Questions about calques

What is calques the plural of?
Calques is the plural of calque.

Words near calques in the dictionary

  1. Calpurnian
  2. calque
  3. calqued
  4. calquer
  5. calquers
  6. calques
  7. calquing
  8. calquings
  9. CALR
  10. CALRAB
  11. calrecticulin

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