Larousse side to start with the one that is most present in homes in France.
“Le Petit Larousse follows the evolution of French society.
We carry out a permanent neological watch and we do not integrate a word without “attestation”, that is to say without it sticking to our time and current usage.
Words which are now part of our daily lives and which have gone beyond fashion,”
explains Carine Girac-Marinier, director of the dictionaries and encyclopedias department.
Radars may register the liveliness of a new word, but it may not cross the circle of its first users or a community.
On average, it takes three years for a word to settle.
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So, does this vintage, which welcomes 150 new words and meanings, have a particular aroma?
“It responds to three strong trends,
responds Bernard Cerquiglini, linguist and scientific adviser to the Petit Larousse illustré.
a feminization of trades, gastronomy with a health aspect, the development of certain social phenomena, such as wokism, grossophobia, and the
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of the Covid with terms like “Covid long”, “distanciel”, “enfermiste ”, “pass” with an “e”, “vaccinodrome”, “vaccinator/trice” or “visio”…»
"Chik reads", "halloumi"...
"Wokism" (which is also found in the Robert) is defined as follows:
"Woke-inspired ideology, centered on questions of equality, justice and the defense of minorities, sometimes perceived as attacking universalism republican."
Lighter, we discover chik lit:
"(English words, literature for pullets) Urban Romance".
New gastronomic trends overflow from the pages of Larousse.
Entered “DLC” (use by date), “ultraprocessed”, “chawarma” or “shawarma”, “poke” or “poké”, “halloumi” (AOC cheese made in Cyprus).
The list is long.
As for the feminization of professions, the definitions have been... redefined: "general", "author", "ambassador", "pharmacist", "baker" - for the latter, this no longer means that it is the "woman of"…
By tradition, the Petit Larousse echoes the evolutions of the French language by also drawing on regional diversity and the Francophonie, particularly on the African continent, Quebec and Belgium, which are major providers.
