Larousse french dictionaries
The French generally avoided English pandemic terms, preferring gestes barrières, for example, to social distancing. Larousses French-English English-French Dictionary: Dictionnaire Larousse Francais-Anglais, Anglais-Francais. Of words imported into French from foreign languages, English accounted for the vast majority – about 80%, Le Monde found. These ranged from plasticroûte (a blue crust of plastic formed on coastal rocks) to écoblanchiment (an alternative to verdissement for greenwashing), surcyclage (upcycling) and – much used in France in recent weeks – mégafeux. While social issues (including the inevitable wokisme) accounted for a slightly higher proportion of new words overall, the climate crisis and its impact on human activity provided the most neologisms and extensions of meaning, Le Monde found. Whole new expressions, such as cas contact (when you’ve been in close contact with someone who is covidé) also emerged. “Quite suddenly, a very specialist vocabulary was being adopted by everyone.”Īs well as technical terms ( asymptomatique, PCR), existing words were adapted – as in vaccinodrome, for vaccination centre, and confinement, with its logical corollary déconfinement, the end of lockdown.
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“I had never seen one typology of words so overrepresented among our new lexical entries,” said Carine Girac-Marinier, the head of Larousse’s dictionary department.
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Le Monde studied the 514 words incorporated in the authoritative Le Robert and Larousse dictionaries over the past three years, finding the number of new medical terms had trebled to represent about 20% of all new entries.