Published the second edition of the Diccionari de la llengua catalana by the Institute for Catalan Studies

Coinciding with the centenary of the creation of the Institute for Catalan Studies, a few days ago the second edition of the Diccionari de la llengua catalana, the normative reference work for the Catalan language, was published. Twelve years after the publication of the first edition [http://pdl.iec.es/entrada/diec.asp] of this work, heir to the Diccionari general de la llengua catalana (1932) by Pompeu Fabra, this second edition contains a total of 69,988 entries, 2,422 more than in the first edition. On the other hand, 6,234 new examples have been introduced (now there are 50,234 against 44,000 in the first edition), due to the interest they have for the nonspecialized users. On the other hand, ideological neutrality has been pursued in fields such as religion or gender treatment, and at the same time the totality of the territorial variants of the language have been considered. With regard to the different meanings of the entries, that now appear numbered, they have gone from 120,000 to 132,460, and the specialized lexicon has been increased significantly. The revision of this lexicon has been carried out by 117 experts, and as a result 1,994 new entries have been added, out of the 3,564 proposals of addition reviewed, while 700 entries out of the 1,153 ones studied have been removed. Furthermore, the spelling of 65 entries has been modified.

The volume has been published by Edicions 62 and Enciclopèdia Catalana; 30,000 copies have been printed, and in the future it will be possible to consult it through the Internet. Once this project has been taken to an end, the Institute for Catalan Studies will devote its efforts to finishing the new Catalan grammar, which is to be published by 2009.

Examples of new entries in the second edition of the normative dictionary:

A l’alça: cap amunt.
A petició de: per haver-ho demanat.
Aixecar acte: estendre acta.
Així i tot: tot i així.
Anar (o venir) mal dades: anar malament.
Bala perduda: persona de poc seny.
Bingo: joc.
Col·leccionable: que pot ésser col·leccionat; obra que surt en fascicles.
De seguida que: així que.
Delfinaire: lloc on viuen o s’exhibeixen dofins en captivitat.
Dèsset: disset, propi del valencià.
Donja: embotit típic d’Andorra.
En curs de: en procés de.
Extraescolar: que té lloc fora d’horari escolar.
Gèl·lera: gerla (peix) propi del balear.
Grappa: aiguardent de brisa elaborat a Itàlia.
Henna: alquena.
Hereu escampa: dilapidador.
Idò: doncs, propi del balear.
Justa la fusta!: expressió per manifestar l’acord amb una cosa dita.
Lífting: operació d’estirar la pell.
Mudat/ada: ben vestit.
Museïtzar: convertir en museu.
Nominar: incloure en una nòmina amb vistes a un nomenament, un premi.
Per antonomàsia: per excel·lència.
Pírcing: tècnica que consisteix a subjectar joies o altres objectes travessant la pell.
Pica-pica: àpat consistent en menges variades que es presenten en racions petites que hom pren a voluntat.
Progre: Persona d’idees avançades i capteniment anticonvencional.
Zàping: acció de passar ràpidament d’un canal a un altre de televisió amb el comandament a distància.
Rebeca: jaqueta de punt sense coll que es corda per davant.