Main Article Content

Marisa Montero Curiel
Universidad de Extremadura
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-8038
Vol 29 (2023), Monográfico: Las nuevas voces de ayer y hoy. Treinta años del DVUA / Coords.: M.ª Auxiliadora Castillo Carballo & Juan Manuel García Platero, Universidad de Sevilla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id9599
Submitted: 17-12-2023 Accepted: 18-04-2024 Published: 30-05-2024
Copyright How to Cite Cited by

Abstract

This study attempts to reflect on the presence of words included in el Diccionario de autoridades (1726-1739) as invented and humorous, frameworks with which more than two hundred mottos are registered in this first lexicographic work published by the Real Academia Española. After a general review, in which the formative mechanisms that served to create the phrases are explained, an in-depth attempt will be made to analyze the origin of a small group of words marked with the adjectives invented and humorous. In this case, phrases related to the noun devil (diablo) allow us to discover the motivation, the mechanisms that operate in its formation, and the reason for its inclusion in that primitive dictionary. We consulted the academic corpora CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI, and, especially, the lexical heritage gathered in the NTLLE to verify its subsequent presence and/or absence in the Spanish language.