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Origin of the Spanish lexicon

In this video I will explain the origin of the Castilian lexicon. Basically, this is the origin of the Spanish lexicon:

  • Most of his words come from a Latin evolution: what we call patrimonial voices.
  • In other cases they are words of Greco-Latin origin, taken directly from these languages ​​with hardly any changes: they are the so-called cultisms or semi-culturalisms. With the cases, in addition, in what the same ethic has given both a cultism and a patrimonial voice: doublet.
  • And to this Latin base we must add all the incorporation of lexical loans, that is, words taken from other languages ​​throughout history. Arabisms, Gallicisms, Americanisms, Italianisms, etc.

If you watch the video you will learn much more about the origin of the Spanish lexicon since I explain it in more detail and give different examples that illustrate it.

Also, if you want to check if you have understood what was explained in today's lesson, you can do the printable exercises with their solutions that I have left you on the web.

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