RAE Dictionary: New Words – Logging, Streaming & Tourismphobia

by Archynetys Entertainment Desk

The words microtheater, logging in and tourismphobia and expressions such as family photo and broken toy were added to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE)as announced by the institution this week.

This update of the tool consulted by millions of Spanish speakers It includes many other novelties, such as raw foodism (consuming raw and unprocessed products) and millennial, the RAE said in a statement.

It also renewed meanings, such as chapar, to say that an establishment is closed, or echo, to colloquially call an ultrasound, the RAE indicated.

On this occasion, the online dictionary incorporated several terms that have to do with computer systems and networks, such as logging in, gif, streaming and hashtag.

He also added words from science, such as graviton, thermochemical, narcoleptic and ovulatory.

As the updates are worked on with Latin American language academies, words were included such as morro, used to refer to a child in El Salvador and Mexico, and cubetera, as in Bolivia, Chile and Cuba they designate the container with ice to cool the bottles while drinking.

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