Les nouveaux termes dans la nouvelle Loi fondamentale de la Hongrie

The new Hungarian Constitution, or Fundamental Law, which came into effect on 1 January 2012, was much criticised. The highly controversial, newly-coined terms are analysed in this paper from a contrastive angle, comparing Hungarian and Italian terms. Cases of semantic convergence and divergence between borrowed and original lexical items and their definitions in both languages are examined. Emphasis is laid on the complex mechanisms and challenges of multilingual terminological harmonisation.