ALL meanings of loanword
loan·word
L l - noun loanword A word adopted from a foreign language with little or no modification. 1
- noun loanword 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. 1
- noun loanword a word of one language taken into another and naturalized (Ex.: kindergarten < Ger, , chauffeur < Fr) 0
- noun loanword A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation. 0