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1. In linguistics, a calque ([kælk]) or loan translation consists of the borrowing of a phrase from one language into another, in the process of which individual words native to the borrowing language semantically match the individual words in the source language.
2. The word is also used as a verb: to calque means to loan translate from another language to create a new lexeme in the target language.

1 English

1.1 Noun

Thus:

• English Superman calques German Übermensch
• English Governor-General calques French gouverneur général
• English Commonwealth calques Latin res publica (which has also become Republic)
• English breakfast calques French déjeuner (which now means lunch).

2 French

Examples of French expressions calqued from English include:

• French lune de miel calques English honeymoon
• French gratte-ciel calques English skyscraper

2.1 See also

• LoanwordA loanword (or a borrowing is a word taken in by one language from another. The word loanword itself is a calque of the German Lehnwort''. A calque or loan translation is a related process whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather the lex
• AnglicismAn anglicism is a word borrowed from English into another language, but considered by a fair part of the influential speakers of that language to be substandard or undesirable. Anglicisms in French Occasionally governments of both Quebec and France have u