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The article deals with the semantic analysis of terminological metaphors in the Spanish language of economics. The objective is to identify and define all possible source domains in terminological metaphors that serve to name an abstract domain in the language of economics. It complements the conceptual taxonomies in terminological metaphors mentioned and studied so far and seeks to prove that technical metaphorical terms are images of human existence and everything related to it. It also aims to establish which conceptual domain is the most frequent in the formation of metaphorical terms in the language of economics.

In Spanish, so-called learned words, derived from Latin, form etymological doublets with popular words, both of them tracing their origin to the same Latin etymon. While popular words have undergone many acoustic and sometimes semantic changes, learned words have been subject to only minor formal and, to a lesser extent, semantic alterations. Learned words are used mostly in specialized and technical terminology, sometimes in literary style. In Slovak there are very few etymological doublets because the main source of loanwords was neither its preceding Paleoslavic stage, nor Old Slavonic, or any other Slavic language. On the other hand, in Russian we can observe many loanword doublets consisting of popular words alongside Old Church Slavonic lexis.