Template:calque
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- The following documentation is located at Template:calque/documentation. [edit]
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This template indicates that a term originated as a calque (also called a loan translation) of a term in another language. Use {{semantic loan}} if the word already existed in the borrowing language, and simply had a new meaning added to it.
Example:
{{calque|fr|en|light year}}
or
the abbreviation {{cal|fr|en|light year}}
evaluates to
Category pages for this template are created by {{auto cat}}.
Parameters
|1=- The language code (see Wiktionary:Languages) of the language the calque appears in, which should be the language of the section that the template is placed in.
|2=- The language from which the calque is derived.
|3=- The source word of the calque.
|4=or|alt=- (optional) An alternative display form to show for the term, see
{{l}}and{{m}}. |5=or|t=(the parameter|gloss=is deprecated)- The translation of the term.
|pos=- A part-of-speech label for the term.
|tr=- The transliteration for the term, if there is no automatically generated transliteration or the automatically generated transliteration is wrong.
|g=,|g2=,|g3=and so on- (optional) Gender and number, as in
{{l}}and{{m}}; see Module:gender and number for details. |lit=- (optional) A literal translation for the term, see
{{l}}and{{m}}. |id=- (optional) A sense id for the term, see
{{l}}and{{m}}. |sc=- (optional) Script code to use, see
{{l}}and{{m}}. |sort=- (optional) The sort key to use for categories.
|nocap=1- Show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter.
|notext=1- Omit the initial text altogether. The first thing displayed will be the source language name (as in
{{etyl}}). |nocat=1- Suppress categorization.