410: Calques Jan 22, 2016

Yesterday, there were some examples of translations that have been accepted into other languages. That is called a 'calque'. A calque is a verbatim translation, the opposite of borrowing or adopting a word, such as the word 'calque' which is directly from French. An example of a calque is 'Devil's advocate' which is translated from the Latin 'advocātus diabolī', who was a person in the Roman Catholic Church who would verify miracles, among other things.