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Yes. The word calque is a Scrabble US word. The word calque is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word calque is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

CALQUE,CLAQUE,

5-letter words (2 found)

EQUAL,QUALE,

4-letter words (5 found)

ALEC,CAUL,CLUE,LACE,LUCE,

3-letter words (14 found)

ACE,ALE,ALU,AUE,CAL,CEL,CUE,EAU,ECU,LAC,LEA,LEU,QUA,ULE,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from calque according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of calque

calque

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kælk/
  • Rhymes: -ælk
  • Homophones: calc, calk
  • Hyphenation: calque

Noun

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

Hyponyms

  • partial calque

Coordinate terms

  • Hobson-Jobson
  • loanword

Derived terms

Translations

Trivia

  • While the term calque is a loanword from French, the term loanword is a calque from the German compound noun Lehnwort.

See also

  • metaphrase

Verb

calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)

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

Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “calque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • “calque”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “calque”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • claque

Asturian

Verb

calque

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of calcar

French

Etymology

Deverbal from calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalk/

Noun

calque m (plural calques)

  1. tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
  2. (lexicography) calque, loan translation
  3. (computer graphics) layer

Descendants

  • → Belarusian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
  • → Bulgarian: ка́лка (kálka)
  • → Catalan: calc (semantic loan)
  • → Czech: kalk
  • → English: calque
  • → Georgian: კალკი (ḳalḳi)
  • → Italian: calco (semantic loan)
  • → Latvian: kalks
  • → Macedonian: калка (kalka)
  • → Polish: kalka
  • → Romanian: calc
  • → Russian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ка̏лк (kȁlk)
  • → Slovak: kalk
  • → Slovene: kalk
  • → Spanish: calco (semantic loan)
  • → Ukrainian: ка́лька (kálʹka)
  • → Yiddish: קאַלקע (kalke)

Further reading

  • “calque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • claque, claqué

Galician

Verb

calque

  1. inflection of calcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cal‧que
  • Rhymes: -alkɨ, -awki

Verb

calque

  1. inflection of calcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

calque

  1. inflection of calcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org