English-Greek translations for semantic loan

• σημασιολογικό δάνειο

Definition of semantic loan

• A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language

Related words

• semantic
• semantics
• semantically
• polysemantic
• semanticist
• semantician
• phonosemantics
• phonosemantic
• semanticism
• asemanticity