Meanings (ES + gloss)
calco • extranjerismo • préstamo
A word directly taken into one language from another one.
"Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers…
Phrases
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