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Hispanic Studies: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

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    • Dictionaries: Medieval up to 1611
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Bilingual Dictionaries

  • Diccionarios.com
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  • Dictionaries: Medieval up to 1611
  • Dictionaries: 1611-present
  • Dictionaries: Proverbs, Slang (Argot) and Quotations
  • Dictionaries: Spanish in America
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Diccionario biográfico español

  • Diccionario biográfico español
    Key biographical and historical dictionary concerning Spain.

    El Diccionario Biográfico Español (RBE) de la Real Academia de Historia es un buscador avanzado con numerosos criterios combinables entre sí. Ofrece fichas documentadas por especialistas de más de 50.000 personajes de la Historia de España.

    Otras característica:

    - 2.500 años de Historia a través de sus protagonistas
    - Ámbito geográfico mundial, con especial atención a todos los territorios que, además de la Península, formaron parte de la Administración española
    - 2.000 ámbitos de actividad
    - 4.000 autores, españoles y extranjeros
    - 500 instituciones científicas nacionales e internacionales

Development of Spanish language

The Biblioteca Nacional de España's guide to the development of the Spanish language:

Online Dictionaries

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)
    First dictionary in Castillian by the Golden Age-era scholar Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco (1539-1613). This digital version is not searchable. The library owns many print copies of this text (which are much easier to use). Click on the icon of the open book to see the library's holdings.
  • Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico del español: (S. XIV-1726)
    PC4650.N54 2007 (11 volumes). Only available in print. To see the list of sources used to compile the NTLE click on the icon of the open book.
  • 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.
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