Skip to Main Content

Hours & Login Menu

  • Hours
  • Login
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan
Dartmouth Libraries Dartmouth Libraries

Global dropdown menu

    • Borrow and Request
      • Who Can Borrow
      • What Can You Borrow
      • Loan Periods and Renewals
      • Borrow from Other Libraries
      • Request Materials
      • All Borrow and Request
    • Collections
      • Digital Collections
      • Media Collections
      • Oral Histories
      • Collections Care
      • All Collections
    • Course Reserves
      • Find Course Reserves
      • Create or Add Course Reserves
      • All Course Reserves
    • Off-Campus Access
    • Records Management
      • Retention and Disposition
      • Confidential Monthly Destruction
      • Electronic Records
      • Physical Records
      • Retention Schedules
      • All Records Management
    • Search and Browse
      • Library Search
      • Databases
      • Journals
      • Research Guides
      • Maps and Atlases
      • Newspapers
      • Dartmouth Digital Commons
      • Music Scores
      • BorrowDirect
      • Archives and Manuscripts
      • All Search and Browse
    • Design and Produce
      • Audio and Video
      • Book Arts
      • Design and Digital Art
      • Equipment and Hardware
      • Software
      • All Design and Produce
    • Data Services
      • Research Data Management
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Data Repositories
      • Data Workshops
      • Datasets at Dartmouth
      • All Data Services
    • Digital Scholarship
    • Publishing and Copyright
      • Copyright
      • Open Access
      • Publisher Agreements
      • Publishing for Faculty
      • Publishing for Students
      • All Publishing and Copyright
    • Research Help
    • Teaching and Workshops
    • Print, Copy, Scan
    • Locations
      • Baker-Berry Library
      • Book Arts Workshop
      • Evans Map Room
      • Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
      • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
      • Jones Media Center
      • Library Collections and Services Facility
      • Rauner Special Collections Library
      • Sherman Art Library
      • All Locations
    • Accessibility
    • Events
    • Exhibits
    • Hours
    • Study Spaces
    • About Dartmouth Libraries
      • Council on the Libraries
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Friends of the Libraries
      • Library Departments
      • Strategic Framework
      • Staff Directory
      • All About Dartmouth Libraries
    • Employment
      • Staff and Professional Positions
      • Student Positions
      • Fellowships
      • All Employment
    • News and Highlights
    • Policies
    • Programs and Awards
      • Alumni Memorial Book Fund Program
      • MAD Research Video Contest
      • Staff Awards
      • All Programs and Awards
    • Contact Us
    • We're Here to Help
      • Students
      • Faculty
      • Alums
      • Staff
      • Visiting Researchers and Community
      • All We're Here to Help
    • Find a Specialist
      • Subject Librarians
      • Audio and Video Production
      • Preservation and Emergency Preparedness
      • Publishing and Copyright
      • Records Management
      • Research Data Services
      • Systematic Review
      • All Find a Specialist
    • Ask Us
  • Hours
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan

Global dropdown menu

    • Borrow and Request
      • Who Can Borrow
      • What Can You Borrow
      • Loan Periods and Renewals
      • Borrow from Other Libraries
      • Request Materials
    • Collections
      • Digital Collections
      • Media Collections
      • Oral Histories
      • Collections Care
    • Course Reserves
      • Find Course Reserves
      • Create or Add Course Reserves
    • Off-Campus Access
    • Records Management
      • Retention and Disposition
      • Confidential Monthly Destruction
      • Electronic Records
      • Physical Records
      • Retention Schedules
    • Search and Browse
      • Library Search
      • Databases
      • Journals
      • Research Guides
      • Maps and Atlases
      • Newspapers
      • Dartmouth Digital Commons
      • Music Scores
      • BorrowDirect
      • Archives and Manuscripts
    • Design and Produce
      • Audio and Video
      • Book Arts
      • Design and Digital Art
      • Equipment and Hardware
      • Software
    • Data Services
      • Research Data Management
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Data Repositories
      • Data Workshops
      • Datasets at Dartmouth
    • Digital Scholarship
    • Publishing and Copyright
      • Copyright
      • Open Access
      • Publisher Agreements
      • Publishing for Faculty
      • Publishing for Students
    • Research Help
    • Teaching and Workshops
    • Print, Copy, Scan
    • Locations
      • Baker-Berry Library
      • Book Arts Workshop
      • Evans Map Room
      • Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
      • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
      • Jones Media Center
      • Library Collections and Services Facility
      • Rauner Special Collections Library
      • Sherman Art Library
    • Accessibility
    • Events
    • Exhibits
    • Hours
    • Study Spaces
    • About Dartmouth Libraries
      • Council on the Libraries
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Friends of the Libraries
      • Library Departments
      • Strategic Framework
      • Staff Directory
    • Employment
      • Staff and Professional Positions
      • Student Positions
      • Fellowships
    • News and Highlights
    • Policies
    • Programs and Awards
      • Alumni Memorial Book Fund Program
      • MAD Research Video Contest
      • Staff Awards
    • Contact Us
    • We're Here to Help
      • Students
      • Faculty
      • Alums
      • Staff
      • Visiting Researchers and Community
    • Find a Specialist
      • Subject Librarians
      • Audio and Video Production
      • Preservation and Emergency Preparedness
      • Publishing and Copyright
      • Records Management
      • Research Data Services
      • Systematic Review
    • Ask Us
  • Hours
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan
  1. Dartmouth Libraries
  2. Research Guides
  3. Dartmouth Libraries Guides
  4. Hispanic Studies
  5. Dictionaries: 1611-present

Hispanic Studies: Dictionaries: 1611-present

Find scholarly articles, books, current and historical news, and digital primary sources
  • Key Resources
  • Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
    • Dictionaries: Medieval up to 1611
    • Dictionaries: 1611-present
    • Dictionaries: Proverbs, Slang (Argot) and Quotations
    • Dictionaries: Spanish in America
    • Encyclopedias
  • Books
  • Scholarly ArticlesToggle Dropdown
    • Spanish Language and Literature
    • Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • NewspapersToggle Dropdown
    • Current
    • Historical
  • Digital Primary Resources
  • Film and Video
  • Lost in Translation?
  • Citing Sources

Other Online Resources

  • Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
    This online dictionary, based on the first edition (2005), addresses habitual questions related to Spanish usage, grammar, and spelling. Also developed and maintained by the RAE, this resource includes appendices with tables of conjugations and non-alphabetic signs/symbols.
  • DIRAE (diccionario inverso)
    Dirae es un diccionario inverso basado en el Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española. Es un diccionario inverso porque, en lugar de hallar la definición de una palabra, como en un diccionario ordinario, halla palabras buscando en su definición [...] el Dirae puede servir también como tesauro asociativo, buscador etimológico, buscador de sinónimos, buscador de categorías gramaticales y otras funciones lexicológicas.

Historical Bilingual Dictionaries - online

  • A new dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish, much more copious than any other hitherto extant. Laying down The true Etymology ...
    Bilingual dictionary, published in 1726, authored by John Stevens, an English sea captain and translator. Page view of the scanned original with keyword search capabilities.
  • A dictionary in Spanish and English [electronic resource] / first published into the English tongue by Ric. Percivale, gent.
    Bilingual dictionary, 1623, authored by Richard Perceval. Page view of scanned original but no search.
  • Diccionario español e ingles, conteniente la significacion y uso de las voces, con terminos propios á la Marina, á las Artes, Ciencias y Comercio, con la acentuacion de la Real Academia de Madrid.
    Authored by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti and published in 1786. Page view of scanned original with search capabilities.

Core Dictionaries in Hispanic Studies

All of these dictionaries are ONLINE except for the 11-volume set of the Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico del español (S. XIV-1726) / Lidio Nieto Jiménez, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra.

  • Diccionario de la lengua española
    The 22nd edition (2001), developed and maintained by the Real Academia Española (RAE).
  • Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (1611)
    Searchable version of the first dictionary in Castillian by the Golden Age-era scholar Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco (1539-1613).
  • Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico del español : (S. XIV-1726)
    PC4650 .N54 2007 (11 volumes). Only available in print on 4th floor of Baker Stacks.
  • Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico de la lengua española: 1726-1992
    Online version
  • Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE)
    Concordance tool that retrieves words in context of literary and non-literary works from Spain and Latin America from the Middle Ages to 1975.
  • Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA)
    Concordance tool that retrieves words in context from various types of texts, in print and in the media, from 1975 to the present.

  • Corpus del Nuevo diccionario histórico (CDH)
    The most complete concordance tool, combining texts from both the CORDE and CREA. Date ranges are S. XII-1975 and 1975-2000. When searching, it is necessary to specify the date range.

Early Modern Spanish 1500-1726

History of the Spanish Language in its Dictionaries:



    
Early Modern Spanish : 1500 to 1726


    
First Spanish Language Lexicographical Corpus at Dartmouth
  • Tesoro de la lengva castellana, o española. Compvesto por el licenciado don Sebastian de Cobarruuias Orozco.
    Madrid, Por Luis Sanchez, impressor del rey n.s., 1611.
  • Tesoro de la lengva castellana o española Compvesto por el licenciado don Sebastian de Covarruvias Orozco.
    Madrid, Melchior Sanchez. 1673-74. 2 vol.
  • Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española de Sebastián de Covarrubias ; según la impresión de 1611, con las adiciones de Benito Remigio Noydens publicadas en la de 1674. Edición de Martín de Riquer
    Barcelona : Alta Fulla, 1993.
  • Suplemento al Tesoro de la lengua española castellana / Sebastián de Covarrubias ; Edición de Georgina Dopico y Jacques Lezra.
    Madrid: Polifemo, 2001.
  • Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española / Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco ; Edición de Felipe C.R. Maldonado ; revisada por Manuel Camarero.
    Madrid: Editorial Castalia, c1995.
  • Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española / Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco ; Edición de Ignacio Arellano y Rafael Zafra.
    Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Vervuert, 2006. [Includes the text in DVD Format]
  • In CD ROM Format in: Lexicografía Española Peninsular
    Madrid: Digibis, 1998
  • In DVD Format in : Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2001
  •  



        
    The Last Spanish Language Lexicographical Corpus
  • Nuevo Tesoro Lexicográfico del Español (S. XIV-1726).
    Madrid : Arco Libros, c2007. 11 vol.


  •     
    Historical Dictionaries : After 1726


    Dictionaries of the Real Academia Española (RAE)
  • Diccionario de Autoridades at Dartmouth:
  • Diccionario de la lengua castellana, en que se explica el verdadero sentido de las voces, su naturaleza y calidad, con las phrases o modos de hablar, los proverbios o refranes, y otras cosas convenientes al uso de la lengua ... Compuesto por la Real academia española Madrid, Impr. de F. Del Hierro, 1726-39. 6 vol.
  • Also in  Facsimile : Diccionario de autoridades / Real Academia Española
    Madrid: Gredos, 1990. 3 volo.
  • In CD ROM Format in: Lexicografía Española Peninsular
    Madrid: Digibis, 1998
  • In DVD Format in : Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2001
  • Online edition in : Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2005
  •     
        
  • Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana (DRAE):
  • Diccionario de la lengua española.
    Real Academia Española, 2001. 22ª ed. Also
    21ª ed. (1992) | 20ª ed. (1984) | 19ª ed. (1970) | 18ª ed. (1956) | 15ª ed. (1925) | 14ª ed. (1914) |
  • In DVD Format in : Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2001
  • Online edition in : Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2005
  •     
        
  • Diccionario Histórico de la Lengua Española:
  • Diccionario histórico de la lengua española
    .Madrid, [Impr. de Librería y casa editorial Hernando (s.a.)] 1933. 2 vol.
  • Diccionario histórico de la lengua española
    .Madrid, 1960- (Issued in parts, never finished)
  • Future Online edition in : Nuevo diccionario histórico de la lengua española
    Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2008
  •     
        
  • Diccionario Manual e Ilustrado:
  • Diccionario manual e ilustrado de la lengua española
    .Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, s. s., 1927.
  • Online edition of the following editions:
    1927, 1950 (2nd ed. ), 1983 (3th ed.), 1989 (4th ed.) in :
    Nuevo tesoro lexicografía de la lengua española


  •     
        
        
        
        
        
    • << Previous: Dictionaries: Medieval up to 1611
    • Next: Dictionaries: Proverbs, Slang (Argot) and Quotations >>
    • Last Updated: Mar 24, 2025 3:43 PM
    • URL: https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/hispanicstudies
    • Print Page
    Login to LibApps
    Report a problem
    Subjects: Spanish and Portuguese Studies
    Tags: Area & Cultural Studies, sppo

    Dartmouth Libraries

    • Baker-Berry Library
      • Book Arts Workshop
      • Evans Map Room
      • Jones Media Center
    • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
    • Feldberg Business & Engineering Library
    • Rauner Special Collections Library
    • Records Management
    • Sherman Art Library

    About Us

    • Staff Directory
    • Subject Librarians
    • Library Departments
    • Policies
    • Employment
    • Accessibility
    • Federal Depository Library

    Contact Us

    • 25 North Main Street
      Hanover, NH, USA 03755
    • Phone: 603-646-2567
    • Contact Us

    Give Us Feedback

    Dartmouth Libraries

    Footer copyright

    • Dartmouth College
    • Copyright © 2025 Trustees of Dartmouth College
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
    Privacy Policy