calque

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
2. verb To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

Similar words

loan translation partial calque homologue semi-calque semantic calque equivalence analogy similect homolog synonym

Often followed by

of on from is translation in for de and

Word family

calques