Question about languages where the nouns have gender (see details)?

In Spanish, usually we give the new word the gender that fits better to the ending of that word.

For exemple, the word "lycra" that becomes "licra" in Spanish. Because it ends in "a", its gender is feminine.

The word "velcro" ends in "o", so, its gender is masculin.

Some words (specially those ending in consonant "r") have two version, one masculin and other feminine:

"Computadora" is feminine, but there is also a less used masculine form "computador".

"secador de pelo" (hair dryer) is masculin, but in some countries the feminine form is preferred: "secadora de pelo".

Besides that, we have the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, that usually give some guidelines about new words.

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The general rule among romance languages is that if the foreign word has no obvious gender, it takes the masculine gender.

Basically, foreign loanwords are neuter, but the neuter gender has all but disappeared in these languages and merged into the masculine. Hence they are formally classed as masculine.

In Italian however, if there is an obvious Italian equivalent (eg. email vs. posta electronica [f.]), the loanword takes the gender of the Italian equivalent.

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No, often, it is left up to people what gender they use (you'll hear both "der Ketchup" and "das Ketchup" in German). What also frequently happens is that the gender of the closest translation of the foreign word is used - "der Computer" got its gender because the closest German translation, "der Rechner", has the same gender.

no comitee decides it in german

over 95% will choose same gender

regarding spirit and equal words