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“Micromachismo”, “puntocom”, “mamitis” or “video player”, the new words in the RAE Dictionary

“Micromachismo”, “puntocom”, “mamitis” or “video player”, the new words in the RAE Dictionary



“Micromachismo”, “puntocom”, “portuñol”, “conspiranoia” or “videojugador” are some of the terms that have just been incorporated into the Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE)whose latest update adds more than three thousand novelties, both amendments and additions, included in its digital edition.

It’s about the DLE update 23.6 which has been presented by the director of the RAE and president of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE), Santiago Muñoz Machado, and the director of the 24th edition of the Dictionary, the academic Paz Battaner.

As a tribute, they have decided to include in the dictionary a series of words suggested by Javier Marías, writer and academic passed away this year. In this way, the terms “supervened” (imposed or artificial) have been added to the dictionary; “hagioscope” (small opening made in the wall of a church to see the altar) or “translaticio” (belonging or relative to the translation).

New uses of words in gastronomy, leisure, sexuality and gender, quite a few words from specialties in science, industry and technology, medicine, physics or chemistry, the environment, economics and law or sports are the topics that contribute the most novelties to the new update of the dictionary.

In it colloquial language Words such as “mamitis”, “potar” (vomit), “gusa”, “copiota”, “rular” or “cuarentañero” have been added.

As for the social ambit there is the addition of the word “ageism” (discrimination based on age, especially of the elderly or elderly). Another of the additions is “ruralize” or the new meaning for the term “gap”, referring to the distance between situations or things or groups of people, especially due to the lack of union or cohesion.

The new additions to the technological field are, among others, “big data”, “dot-com”, “gamer”, or the expressions “electronic commerce”, “data mining”, “planned obsolescence” or “useful life”.

Of gastronomic world the words “panetone” or “panetón” have been added to the update; new meanings of “sancocho”, in reference to the Canarian stew, and “compango”.

Of the natural Sciences Words such as “dingo”, “manta ray” and “warthroat” are incorporated, while “cortisol”, “hyperimmune”, “lidocaine” or “monodosis” come to the dictionary from medicine. And of “garciamarquiano” or “cortazariano” literature.

Words with new meanings

Battaner has also explained how the noun “cut” Derived from the verb to cut, four new meanings have been added: each of the musical compositions on a record; interruption in a radio or television broadcast for publicity; phase in a selection process; and piece of ice cream.

“Conspiranoia”, a tendency to interpret certain events as if it were a conspiracy, and its derivative “conspiranoico” are other novelties. In addition, they have added a new meaning to the word “mercury”, as temperature, and the word “theme” which is also now used as a modern musical composition.

Of the billion queries per year that are made to the Dictionary of the Spanish Language, there are trends such as the one that has occurred with the word “haiga”, which, like the vulgar formula for the verb to do, has been consulted more than 7,000 times in one month. Battaner has indicated that this is due to “urban legends” that there are incorrect words in the dictionary, when in fact this term only appears as the definition of a 1950s flashy vehicle.

There are a total of 3,152 novelties, not only additions to terms but also amendments to already existing articles and deletions, available now in the Web page of the dictionary, which has the support of La Caixa.

It is about, Muñoz Machado recalled, the most emblematic work and important of the RAE, although not the only one because in addition to the annual update, work is being done simultaneously on the 24th edition that will completely renew the current one and that is expected to be presented in 2026.

Source: Lasexta

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