Portuñol, rular, micromachismo and slutty session, new words in the RAE Dictionary

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, voices that enter for the first time in the DLE, that expand their definitions or that change their etymological formulation.

The director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, and the director of the DLE edition, Paz Battaner, presented their 23.6 online update this morning, the sixth edition since the 2017 edition.

What's new in this update?

3,192 modifications, 280 new articles and a few words of charm.

They enter the portuñol DLE, an adjective that describes the mixture between Portuguese and Spanish;

edadismo, a noun that refers to age discrimination;

garciamarquiano and cortazariano, adjectives derived from Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar;

, a compound word from conspiracy and paranoia;

pota, a very classic informal voice equivalent to vomiting...

Curatorial, forty-year-old,

(in the sense of excessive attachment to the mother), panetón (and panetone) and micromachismo are other words that were already in the natural speech of the Spanish language and that are only now entering the DLE.

The category of colloquialisms, always in great demand, includes the very widespread copiota, rular, gusa and the compound form "slutty session".

Among the new entries there are words that will be remembered by their signature:

, before he died, promoted the entry in the DLE of the word hagioscope (small opening in the wall of a church from which to see the altar) and a new meaning for the supervening adjective as imposted, false.

The new word promo is too broad to attempt to read 2022 through its portrait.

However, Battaner pointed to a trend in big data: the massive online consultation of the words

In 2026, there will be a new dictionary, completely reworked and designed directly for online consultation.

Until then, what's up.

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