![]() ![]() Historically, the decision to add, modify, or delete words from the dictionary has been by the RAE, in consultation with other language authorities (especially in Latin America) when there was an uncertainty. Per the prologue, the DRAE was published for general public access to a dictionary during the long time between the publishing of the first and second editions of the exhaustive Authorities Dictionary, thus offering a cheaper reference book by when the second DRAE edition was published, it had become the principal dictionary, superseding its ancestor the last edition of the Diccionario de Autoridades was published in 1793. The full title of that first edition was the Diccionario de la lengua castellana compuesto por la Real Academia Española, reducido á un tomo para su más fácil uso ("Dictionary of the Castilian language composed by the Royal Spanish Academy, reduced to one volume for easier use"). ![]() Based on that work, the DRAE itself was compiled as an abridged version, and published in 1780. Its first endeavor was the six-volume Diccionario de Autoridades (Dictionary of Authorities) from 1726 to 1739. When the RAE was founded in 1713, one of its primary objectives was compiling a Castilian Spanish dictionary. ![]()
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