Emprunt vs. Calque — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emprunt and Calque
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Emprunt
Emprunt is an historical French card game of the Hoc family for three to six players that dates to at least the early 18th century.
Calque
In linguistics, a calque () or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language.
Calque
See loan translation.
Calque
To make a loan translation from (a word in another language).
Calque
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
Loan formation
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Calque
To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
Calque
An expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language
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