calque
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]
Where it comes from
From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry calque (CC BY-SA 4.0).