Términos novedosos recogidos en el DRAE

A continuación presentamos, por su novedad y vigencia actual, una selección de los términos recogidos en el DRAE, Edición XXI (1992) en 1994, con sus equivalentes en inglés norteamericano:  
acceder a  
to accede, to gain access to or into (as in computers)

accesional  
having to do with fits or convulsions

acceso  
access; attack, fit

accionarial o accionario  
relating to stockholders

acensuar  
to take a census

acidorresistente  
acid resistant. Notice that the Spanish term has two “r’s” and is one word.

acrónimo  
acronym. This term was accepted in the 19th edition of DRAE.  Before it was called sigla  or abreviatura, both now also used.

activar  
to activate (in the sense of “radioactivate”)

actividad  
activity (in the sense of “radioactivity”)

ácueo  
aqueous

acuícola  
a water plant or animal

adietar  
to put on a diet

afótico  
without sunlight, at sea depths of more than 200 meters

agenda  
agenda, also orden del día, temario

agerasia  
agerasia (to become old without disease)

agrafía, ágrafo  
agraphia, agraphic (inability to express ideas in writing)

alcoholemia  
blood alcohol levels; alcoholemia

alergista, alergólogo  
allergist

algol  
algol (a science-oriented computer programming language)

alimental  
that which can be used as food

alimentario  
dealing with or referring to nutrition

alimenticio  
nutritious

alteridad
otherness

alternativa
alternative (in the sense or option).  Until this last edition, alternativa was only the possibility of making a choice; now it also means the choice itself, as in English.  Also: posibilidad, opción.

amovible
removable.  Inamovible = nonremovable

anamnesia
medical history of a patient

Fuente: Glosas
Volumen 8, Número 5 Junio de 2014
Número conmemorativo del vigésimo aniversario de Glosas