El glosario de las Ordenanzas navales de 1618 por J. L. Rubio Serrano a la luz de las nuevas aportaciones de la lexicografía histórica náutica y naval

Abstract

The objective of this study is to provide new information on the history of the Spanish naval vocabulary of the Golden Age. The point of departure is two works of capital importance for understanding the annals of Spanish shipbuilding at the time: on the one hand, the facsimile of the Ordenanzas de 1618 y Regla del Arqueo de 1613 de la Recopilación de Indias de 1681; and secondly, the glossary of terms that in 1991 José Luis Serrano Rubio published in his work Arquitectura de las naos y galeones de las flotas de Indias (1492- 1690). The corpus has 129 terms, 7 of which have required special attention from us; these are: albada, calimar, cuaderna maestra, escoperada, espaldones, grúa y singla. From the methodological point of view, we proceeded to analyze the semantic value of terms, to rank them in onomasiological designative areas and to assess their lexicographical history. The study allowed us to consider the importance that both works have had in the genesis, fixing and development of nautical and naval modern terminology in Spanish.