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RAE Unveils 10-Volume Digital Advance of the Spanish Historical Dictionary After 112 Years

The academy sets a digital-only, panhispanic and AI-enabled course toward a projected 30-volume completion.

Overview

  • The Real Academia Española presented the Diccionario Histórico de la Lengua Española in Arequipa, describing the ten-volume release as an advance of ongoing work.
  • The edition exceeds 20,000 pages and seeks to trace the biography of Spanish words, documenting origins, variants and semantic evolution.
  • RAE Director Santiago Muñoz Machado said there will be no further paper editions as consultation and future development move fully to digital tools and artificial intelligence.
  • Volumes I–III reissue fascicles published between 1960 and 1996 using Oxford English Dictionary methodology, while volumes IV–X compile representative monographs from the DHLE website.
  • Backed by Inditex and panhispanic collaboration, the project—begun in 1914—now leverages modern corpora and computational resources such as CDH, CORDIAM and CORPES XXI.