Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries: Information Technology Terms

Below are some common English information technology (IT) terms (in bold), and their Spanish translations (in italics).

Attach:
Adjuntar, anexar

Back (web browser button):
Regresar

Band width; Bandwidth:
Ancho de banda

Broadband:
Banda ancha

Browser:
navegador, visualizador (Spain), explorador, visor

Click:
Hacer clic, pulsar, pinchar

Email:
Correo electrónico, which may be abbreviated as c.e. (widely used in the U.S. and Latin American countries)

Delete:
Borrar, eliminar

Download:
Descargar, bajar

Encrypt:
Cifrar, codificar – NEVER “encriptar”

Forward:
Reenviar

Link:
Enlace (suntantivo), enlazar (verbo)

Log in, log on:
Entrar (al sistema) [The Oxford Spanish Dictionary, CD-ROM]; ingresar (a una cuenta o página de sitio web)

Log off, log out:
Salir (del sistema) [The Oxford Spanish Dictionary, CD-ROM]; cerrar sesión (en la página de un sitio web)

Online:
En línea – Translators find that certain segments of U.S. Hispanics do not relate to this expression, which is then replaced with “por Internet.”

Password:
Contraseña, también clave

Plug-in:
Programa complementario, conectable

Reply:
Responder, respuesta

Requirements:
Requisitos – NEVER “requerimientos”

Run:
Ejecutar (un programa) – NEVER “correr”

Save:
Guardar

Send:
Enviar

Search:
Buscar, búsqueda

Search engine:
Buscador

Social network:
red social

Software:
Programa (s) informático(s) o aplicación(es) informática(s)

Subscribe:
Suscribirse

Unique visitors (in metrics or analytics):
usuarios únicos (Microsoft Latinoamérica)

Unsubscribe:
Cancelar la suscripción

Usability:
Utilizabilidad (España, México, and Chile already use this term for Usability) according to Marta Daza, a professional certified translator, ATA)

User name:
Nombre del usuario

Visitors (to a website):
Usuarios

Website:
Portal, sitio Web (sitio is a direct translation from English and used in the U.S. interchangeably whether the site is a Web site or a portal), página Web, cibersitio

Sources

• Compiled using articles from ApuntesOnline and various sources.