CALQUE

PRONUNCIATION: (kalk) Listen to pronunciation

MEANING: noun: A word or expression formed by translating the components of a term from another language; a loan translation.

ETYMOLOGY: From French calque (copy), from calquer (to trace or copy), from Italian calcare (to press or tread), from Latin calcare (to tread on), from calx (heel). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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BALQUE - a relatively esoteric baseball term referring to a disallowed movement on the part of the pitcher permitting any baserunner to advance gratuitously

CALOQUE - vernacular for "in the vernacular"

CASQUE - flowery term for a barrel, though less precisely defined