loanword

Or loan word

[lohn-wurd]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loanword¹

1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort

Example Sentences

Since the institute was founded in 1991, more than 17,000 so-called loanwords — nearly all from Chinese, Japanese or English — have been localized in this way.

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During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.

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During World War I, “hamburger steak” became “Salisbury steak,” part of an effort to curb the use of German loanwords, according to H.L.

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TO THE long list of President Trump’s dubious achievements, add the spread of “fake news” as a loanword to the non-English-speaking world.

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As for the rest of the vocabulary, about half comes from Italian, with English and French loanwords.

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