The Portuguese words for comorbidity, (as)synchronous, obscurantism and omicron are among the 24 most searched words in the Priberam online dictionary in 2021, it was announced today.
“Among the 24 words that defined 2021, there remain many that refer, directly or indirectly, to the Covid-19 pandemic, such as (as)synchronous, comorbidity, obscurantism and, of course, omicron,” reads a joint statement from Priberam and Lusa, which teamed up for the fifth consecutive year to select the most searched words in the dictionary, and which illustrate the year that is ending.
The 24 words, selected among 200, which “due to the high number of daily searches, will be highlighted in the Priberam Dictionary cloud throughout 2021”, will be available as of today on the website https://ift.tt/3F0Ck71, which also includes news content from Lusa, to put each of the words into context, illustrating them with photographs taken by its photojournalists.
This year, “from the list of words that, at some point, were highlighted in the Priberam Dictionary cloud, the most searched was ‘genocida’ (genocide), motivated by protests against the Brazilian president” Jair Bolsonaro.
The ‘site’ is structured in chronological order, from January to December. Each word allows direct access to its meaning in the Priberam Dictionary and Lusa’s article on the event that motivated the searches.
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