Loanword (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
noun
  1. a word adopted, often with some modification of its form, from one language into another
Loanword (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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