What does «extranjerismo» mean in Spanish?
- Inordinate fondness or taste for everything foreign.
- A word, expression or turn of phrase that a language takes from another language, generally to fill a semantic gap or as an alternative to existing words. If it maintains its original spelling and pronunciation, it is called a barbarism; on the other hand, if the word adapts to the language that adopts it, it is a foreignism. The RAE recommends writing foreign words in italics (or in round or common letters if the entire text is already in italics). An alternative is to use quotation marks.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la palabra ‘chófer’ es un extranjerismo en español".