Spanish and Latin American Literature: Library and Internet Research Guide for Junior Essay and Senior Thesis Writers

9. Language Dictionaries and Selected Encyclopedias

Online Dictionaries

Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola, 22nd ed. (Real Academia Espanola)
and
Nuevo Tesoro Lexicografico de la Lengua Espanola, 21st edicion (1992) and earlier

From the Real Academia's main page, select Diccionarios academicos for the search engine for dictionaries.

**For additional lists of online language resources, see Spanish Language resources prepared by Harvard's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (in the online resources section of the Department's website). Online dictionaries, translators, grammars and tutorials are listed.

Bilingual Online Dictionaries


Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection

This resource contains searchable online editions of several bilingual dictionaries as well as other subject dictionaries related to literature, culture, history and other fields.

Print and CD-ROM Dictionaries

Diccionario de la lengua española. 22. ed.[Madrid]: Real Academia Española, 2001.
Widener: RR 2511.4
Lamont REF.ROOM PC4625 .A3 2001x

Diccionario de la lengua española [computer file] / Real Academia Española. 21. ed.
Madrid: Espasa Calpe, Departamento de Edición Electrónica, 1995.
Widener: Harvard Depository XVT 124 (can be checked out)

Diccionario de la lengua española. 21. ed. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1992.
Widener: WID-LC PC4625 .D52 1992x F
Widener: WID-LC Phillips PC4625 .A3 1992 F

Real Academia Española. Diccionario de autoridades. Edición facsámil. Madrid: Editorial Gredos [1963]
Widener: 7221.7.5

Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de. Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española. Madrid: Turner, 1979.
Widener: RR2523.20

Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de. Suplemento al Tesoro de la lengua española castellana. edición de Georgina Dopico y Jacques Lezra. 1. ed. Madrid: Polifemo, 2001.
(This work is a transcription of the manuscript written by S. Covarrubias, found as the Ms. 6159 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. The manuscript covers from the word Abacuq to the word Moises. The rest of the work has not been found.)
Widener: RR 2523.20.5

Corominas, Joan. Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana. Reimpresión. Madrid: Gredos, 1974, 1954.
Widener: WID-LC PC4580.C6

Corominas, Joan. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico / por Joan Corominas con la colaboración de José Pascual. Madrid: Gredos, 1980-1991. 6 v.
Widener: RR 2514.6
and:
Corominas, Joan. Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana. 3. ed. muy rev. y mejorada. Madrid: Gredos, [1973]
Widener: 7235.167.3

Moliner, María. Diccionario de uso del español. Reimpresión. Madrid: Gredos, 1987.
Widener: RR 2511.25


Selected Encyclopedias

Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, [1907?]-1930.
Widener: RR2018.2

Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana. Suplemento anual. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A.
Widener: RR 2018.4
Widener: RR 2018.4.5 Index; RR 2018.4.3 Appendix

The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico and Central America / Davíd Carrasco, editor in chief. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Widener: WID-LC F1218.6 .O95 2001
Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. F1218.6 .O95 200
Tozzer: REF F1218.6 .O95 2001

An encyclopedia that builds on the Handbook of Middle American Indians (16 vol., 1964-1996), adding archaeological, linguistic and scholarly developments since the 1960s. Some accompanying bibliographies are extensive (Gender studies and Linguisitics entries, for example).

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