/ kælk; NAmE / (also ˈloan translation ) noun
( linguistics ) a word or expression in a language that is a translation of a word or expression in another language :
'Traffic calming' is a calque of the German 'Verkehrsberuhigung'.
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WORD ORIGIN
1930s: from French , literally copy, tracing , from calquer to trace, via Italian from Latin calcare to tread.