64,000 words and some 28,000 proper nouns in 2023
On the Covid-19 side, a plethora of new terms including “Long Covid”, “vaccination pass” and “sanitary”, “vaccinodrome”, or even “enfermiste” and “reassuring” to characterize the two antagonistic discourses on public health measures make their entry.
Among the foreign words, the Cypriot cheese halloumi will rub shoulders with konjac (Japanese plant), kakapo (New Zealand parrot), chick lit (literature for young women in English), tomte (Swedish leprechaun) or even yodel (singing technique from the German-speaking Alps).
As for proper names, the Larousse devotes the creator of the Balmain brand, Olivier Rousteing, the dancer Misty Copeland, the cook Thierry Marx or the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Angelita Ressa.
