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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, a <b>calque</b>  or <b>loan translation</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=word">word</a> or <a href="page.php?w=phrase">phrase</a> borrowed from another <a href="page.php?w=language">language</a> by <a href="page.php?w=literal_translation">literal</a> word-for-word or root-for-root <a href="page.php?w=translation">translation</a>. When used as a <a href="page.php?w=verb">verb</a>, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create</p><p>
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