Cryptocurrency, webinar, cisgender, or quinoa. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) presented this Thursday the update of its dictionary, which also added words related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as masks or swabs.
“In this new edition of the work, 3,836 modifications have been carried out, both additions to articles and meanings as well as amendments”, already available in the online dictionary www.dle.rae.es, the RAE explained in a statement.
This update of the tool consulted by millions of Spanish speakers included a good number of words related to social networks and new technologies, such as bitcoin, cyberbullying, cybercrime, webinar or stick cutter.
The pandemic, which dominated the update at the end of last year when COVID, coronavirus and dystopian were added, continues to be present, which implied that words such as face mask or nasobuco, synonyms for a mask in several Latin American countries, or swab, such as the swab test is told.
“Terms related to sexuality and gender, such as polyamory, transgender, cisgender or pansexuality, were also incorporated,” the statement explained.
As is customary, articles with words that have to do with gastronomy were included, such as quinoa, crudité or cachopo, a typical dish of the gastronomy of Asturias (northwestern Spain).
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