loan translation

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

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"To support his definition, Betz discusses various examples of loan translation from Latin and English as in German Wolkenkratzer after English skyscraper, Gegengift ('antidote') after Latin contravenenum, Mitleid ('compasssion') after Latin compassio, and Gewissen ('conscience') after Latin conscientia (1949: 27,32)."

From loan + translation, calque of German Lehnübersetzung.

loan translations (plural)

loanword

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