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Re:My Favourite German Word by card_zero on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:48PM (#44643050)
For instance here: https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Gegenstand

Gegenstand is in the middle of the page: "lat. obiectum", it says - "translation of Latin obiectum into philosopher-speak".

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Re:My Favourite German Word by schoen on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @01:49AM (#44643592)
German has often taken terminology from Latin by translation:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued...

A nice example (of many!) is überleben, calqued from supervivere (literally, to over-live).

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