New Spanish Dictionary Words: The Latest Additions from the Royal Spanish Academy

2023-11-29 21:35:41

The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) was founded in Madrid with the objective of “watching over the changes that the Spanish language experiences in its constant adaptation,” according to its official website. This is why you turn to this institution when you have any doubts regarding the meaning of a word or its spelling.

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Every year an update is made to the electronic dictionary, due to the studies carried out by the academy about the language that people currently have. In this year’s edition, 4,381 terms containing their antonyms and synonyms were added, which is a novelty compared to previous versions, according to ‘BBC’.

The new words in the dictionary

The RAE announced its new edition with a statement on its official website: “The Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Language Academies have already undertaken the writing tasks of the new edition of their dictionary of the Spanish language. With the objective that development does not delay the inclusion of new words or modification of those already incorporated”.

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This year there was talk about Jaime Maussan’s conference at the Autonomous University of Mexico, which had the objective of proving that extraterrestrial life exists, news that became so viral that Internet users made memes about it. Which is why the Royal Spanish Academy presumably took into account some words related to the subject, such as alien and alien.

In terms of health, there are terms such as: audiometer, hormones, implantology, cardiocirculatory, pressotherapy, extraction and endodontics. Regarding sexuality we find: non-binary, gender dysphoria and sexting. In technology you can read: pixelation, pixelation, pixelation, big data, banner and cookie.

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As for dance, some of the most representative were: perrear, which means dancing perreo and perreo, which has by definition: “Dance that is generally performed to the rhythm of reggaeton, with erotic hip movements, and in which, when I know how to dance, In pairs, the man usually stands behind the woman with their bodies very close together.”

Another word that can be found is machirulo, which is described as: “Said of a person, especially a man: who exhibits a macho attitude.” Also, matriarchy which means: “Social organization, traditionally attributed to some primitive peoples, in which power corresponds to women.”

You can also find other terms such as: meditation, nepotism, palitroque, parkour, flask, plate, point blank, superfood, swing, toxic, VAR and finally video refereeing.