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prettygoodwordcalque - n., a term borrowed from another language by translating its constituent parts. v., to so borrow.
Also known as loan translation -- which is autologous, being a calque of German Lehnübersetzung. The example everyone gives is English superman taken from German Übermensch, but we're not the only ones to do it -- and Wikipedia has an incomplete multilingual list to prove it. (I'm especially interested to brainwashing come from Chinese xǐ nǎo.) Calque itself is from French, where it means copy, from calquer to trace, from Italian calcare, to trample, trace, from Latin, to trample.
---L.
Also known as loan translation -- which is autologous, being a calque of German Lehnübersetzung. The example everyone gives is English superman taken from German Übermensch, but we're not the only ones to do it -- and Wikipedia has an incomplete multilingual list to prove it. (I'm especially interested to brainwashing come from Chinese xǐ nǎo.) Calque itself is from French, where it means copy, from calquer to trace, from Italian calcare, to trample, trace, from Latin, to trample.
---L.
