loanword

American  

[lohn-wurd] / ˈloʊnˌwɜrd /

Or loan word

noun

1. a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.

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Etymology

Origin of loanword

1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort

Example Sentences

The sheer clip at which English words rotate in and out of the vernacular has made it difficult for any statistic to accurately capture the scale of loanword creep.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

Deciding whether to use the Anglicized or loanword pronunciations can be fraught for bilingual performers.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2021

Local journalists describe the scenes here as the local telenovela, a Spanish loanword meaning soap opera.

From Time • Oct. 27, 2017

Sadly, these words failed to stick, and nowadays one is forced to answer wrong numbers on a loanword: tilifun.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

A word that is used in a sense distinctively Scand., as opposed to Eng. or L. G., is to be regarded as a loanword.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias