calqueとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French calque (“calque”, literally “tracing, copy”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“I tread”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /kælk/
• 韻: -ælk
• 異形同音異義語: calc, calk

名詞

calque (複数形 calques)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

   Synonyms: loan translation, calquing

   Hypernym: loan formation

   Coordinate term: partial calque, loanblend (a term that is partially a calque かつ partially formally contains a foreign element)

   The word “watershed” is a calque of the German “Wasserscheide”.

派生語

参考

• Hobson-Jobson
• loanword
• metaphrase

動詞

calque (三人称単数 現在形 calques, 現在分詞 calquing, 過去形および過去分詞形 calqued)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word または phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

豆知識

While the term calque is a loanword from French, the term loanword is a calque of German.

アナグラム

• claque