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calco . ( Of tracing ). 1. m. action and effect of tracing (? imitate, copy or reproduce). 2. d. copy obtained tracing. 3. m. plagiarism, imitation or reproduction identical or very close to the original. 4. m. Colloq. shoe. 5. m. Ling. Adoption of the semantic content of a word or expression foreign, translating its meaning through language units of the l engua reception; e.g. data bank is a calque of the English data bank. calco semantic. 1. m. adoption of a foreign meaning for a word already exists in one language; e.g., mouse, in its 'manual device connected to a computer' sense, is semantic calque of the English mouse. ? V. role of calco