# calque

> English word · Noun · IPA /kælk/

## Definitions
1. A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

## Etymology
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/calque