Manuel Seco Reymundo (20 September 1928 – 16 December 2021[1]) was a Spanish lexicographer, linguist and philologist.
[2] His father was Rafael Seco y Sánchez (1895–1933) and his mother Carmen Reymundo Mariño.
[3] He obtained a degree in philology of the Romance languages at the Central University of Madrid in 1952.
Two years later he took up a position at the lexicography department of the Real Academia Española, to which he was invited by Rafael Lapesa.
[4] Seco is best known for his two lexicographic works on the Spanish language: el Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, a dictionary on doubts and difficulties of the Spanish language, and the Diccionario del español actual, a dictionary of present-day Spanish which he co-authored with Gabino Ramos and Olimpia Andrés.