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Enrique Jiménez Ríos
Universidad de Salamanca
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6970-3527
Vol 51 (2024), Articles, pages 1-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.51.8432
Submitted: 25-04-2022 Accepted: 26-09-2022 Published: 23-04-2024
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Abstract

The article examines the Latin etymologies in the twelfth edition of the Dictionary of the Academy, from 1884. The recovery of this information at this time and the influence of historical linguistics on the diachronic knowledge of languages have focused attention on this edition and this type of etymologies. Latin etymologies are classified and described and the observations of authors contemporary with the dictionary are presented. These comments and the new historicist methodology affected the treatment of etymologies, with changes in this and subsequent editions, entailing the abandonment of remains of the past, Latin correspondences and equivalents.