Technology words that RAE adopted this year 2023

Update of its terms and new words made RAE for 2023, with its technological options being one of the main ones, as terms widely used in social networks and the Internet have gained a place in dictionary Spanish official.

This time the inclusion of terms such as machirulo, alien, big datascold, leaven and some environmental related ones such as decarbonization, ecological footprint or energy poverty. For gastronomy lovers, enter cocifrito and pollock. In music, perreo and chunda-chunda (hyphenated or together). There were 4381 new developments, including new terms, new meanings of pre-existing words, changes in articles, exceptions.

Words close to technology entering the RAE

This edition contains several technical terms or anglicisms that have already been adopted or converted into Spanish.

• VAR as “a video system used to assist the referee and allow a re-view of the play that has just occurred”, Pixelate (with its derivatives, pixilation and pixilation) which “changes the image to make it visible”. not sharp in large pixels;
• Banner (in italics, like an advertising message on the site),
• big data (although big data is preferable) and
• cookie (a small text file sent by a website and stored in the browser of the user whose preferences it records).
• Sextingsending or exchanging sexually explicit images or text messages via an electronic device

Bonus track: He introduced kryptonite or kryptonite, which originated from the S movie.superman, with two definitions: a substance that weakens the main character and nullifies his powers, in this case a superhero who came from the planet Krypton. And a person or thing that neutralizes or diminishes the essential qualities of something or someone.