The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) has officially added the Puerto Rican term "corillo" to the 24th edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE), the academy announced on its digital platforms while showcasing some of the most notable additions to its lexicon. The RAE registered the word as a masculine noun specific to Puerto Rico, defined as "a group of people who relate to each other through friendship or some common interest."
The academy links the entry to related terms used in other Spanish-speaking countries, such as pandilla, cuadrilla, barra, patota, gallada and peña (a social club or circle). The 24th edition of the DLE, prepared by the RAE in close collaboration with the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE), added more than 6,000 new items.
Alongside the island’s everyday speech, it incorporated other Americanisms from the Caribbean and South America, as well as terms rooted in digital life and contemporary debate, including "pódcast," "post," "app," "código QR," "ciberseguridad," "influencer," "turistificación," "performativo" and "basuraleza." "Corillo" joins a list of Puerto Rican words already accepted in the DLE, among them "perreo," defined as dancing to reggaeton with erotic hip movements, and "jurutungo," "zafacón," "guineo," "sato," "jincho," "estofón," "changa" and "güira."
This edition is the first conceived as native digital, with a simultaneous two-volume print version from the Espasa publishing house, totaling 99,990 articles and nearly 209,000 meanings.