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loanwords and loan translationsEnglish takes many of its words from different languages around the world. These words are broadly known as borrowings, and are subdivided into two categories: loanwords and loan translations.A loanword is a term taken from another language and used without translation; it has a specific meaning that (typically) does not otherwise exist in a single English word. Sometimes the word’s spelling or pronunciation (or both) is slightly altered to accommodate English orthography, but, in most cases, it is preserved in its original language.A loan translation (also known as a calque), on the other hand, is a word or phrase taken from another language but translated (either in part or in whole) to corresponding English words while still retaining the original meaning.Continue reading...loan·word L0216700 (lōn′wûrd′)n. A word adopted from another language and completely or partially naturalized, as very and hors d'oeuvre, both from French.loan•word (ˈloʊnˌwɜrd)
n. a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usu. naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish. [1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | loanword - a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern Englishloanword - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"Latinism - a word or phrase borrowed from LatinGallicism - a word or phrase borrowed from French |
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