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  2. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ). [7]

  3. Medical debt - Wikipedia

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    Medical debt is considered as a non-priority unsecured debt in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In other words, medical debts are paid only after assets are applied to the debt of creditors who hold priority debt, and thus medical debts are often discharged in their entirety at the conclusion of the bankruptcy process.

  4. International scientific vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Scientific and medical terms in Interlingua are largely of Greco-Latin origin, but, like most Interlingua words, they appear in a wide range of languages. Interlingua's vocabulary is established using a group of control languages selected as they radiate words into, and absorb words from, a large number of other languages.

  5. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic rafmagn, "electricity", is a half-calqued [definition needed] coinage that literally means "amber power". raf translates the Greek root ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron), which means "amber" magn, "power", is descriptive of electricity's nature but not a direct calque from the source word "electricity" Samviska (conscience).

  6. Loanword - en.wikipedia.org

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    The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ). [7]

  7. Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions - Wikipedia

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    Words of foreign languages, other than established loan words: "hidari" (Jp: "left"); but not "gauche" (Fr: "left"), an established loan word in English. Binomial names of organisms (Genus species), which are considered Latin, even if newly coined. (The initial letter of a genus is always capitalized, but never that of a species.)

  8. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/List of Loanwords - Wikipedia

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    Loanwords per WP:M, are not to be italicized in the English Wikipedia.All loanwords are taken from Lists of English words by country or language of origin.If you know a loanword not included on this list please add it; if you have concerns that words included are not loanwords, please raise them on the talk page.