The following paper analyzes a series of press articles on etymological issues, published by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones in La Nación from 1923 to 1925. It is an organic whole of sketches aimed at cultural and political intervention, allowing Lugones, on the one side, to go further with his philological project, first essayed in his 1913 conferences, later published in El Payador. On the other side, these notes anticipate the bigger project, his Diccionario etimológico del castellano usual, which he would publish in the pages of El monitor from 1930 on. With critical tools developed in the fields of glotopolitics, discourse analyses and literary studies, these notes –contemporary to the Ayacucho speech and the foundation of Buenos Air...