calque
(en)
(verb) originate or function as a loan translation of. ""it goes without saying” is calqued on French “cela va sans dire”"
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When I began to write seriously, I was obsessed with the idea that my Italian should be calqued on dialect, because as I sensed the fake quality of the language used by the majority of writers
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