German has often taken terminology from Latin by translation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued_from_Latin https://en.wiktionary.org

German has often taken terminology from Latin by translation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued_from_Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued... A nice example (of many!) is überleben, calqued from supervivere (literally, to over-live).