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noun A word adopted from another language and completely or partially naturalized, as very and hors d'oeuvre, both from French.

It appears that whoever translated the English subtitle (and I presume that the English version came first) chose to render the adjective "radical" as a loanword from English. — GetReligion
It has, consequently, in not a few cases, been difficult to decide whether a word is a loanword or not. — Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
Brate rightly regarded leȝȝkenn in the Ormulum as a Scandinavian loanword, but in Middle Scotch laiken or laken would be the form of the word whether Norse or genuine English. — Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
Sco. mask is probably not at all a loanword, and may be from older mex by metathesis of s_; cp. — Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
Wherever a W. Scand. source is accepted for a loanword the O.N. — Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch