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  2. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    Latin is usually the most common source of loanwords in these languages, such as in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc., [27] [28] and in some cases the total number of loans may even outnumber inherited terms [29] [30] (although the learned borrowings are less often used in common speech, with the most common vocabulary being of ...

  3. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin; H. Japanese loanwords in Hawaii; J. ... Tamil loanwords in other languages; Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil; Tatsama;

  4. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.

  5. List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of loanwords of Latin origin which entered the Greek language during the Byzantine era. Augousta, honorific term for the Empress; Chartoularios tou kanikleiou, one of the most senior offices in the Byzantine imperial chancery; Kouropalates, a court title; Domestikos, a civil, ecclesiastic and military office

  6. Calque - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a calque (/ k æ l k /) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.When used as a verb, “to calque” means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new word or phrase in the target language.

  7. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    Many loanwords have entered into English from other languages. [not verified in body] [4] [page range too broad] English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings, [5] and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin.

  8. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language . Australian Aboriginal languages

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words with derivatives in Latin (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.