calque in Portuguese

(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.

(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.

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