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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
calque is a noun meaning "an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language". It carries one recorded sense.
an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language
“`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for calque come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.