Dictionaries of the Italian language

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Dictionary of Italian usage | Historical dictionaries of Italian | Etymological dictionaries | Regional and dialectal dictionaries of Italian

 

Dictionary of Italian usage

Dizionario Garzanti
Dictionary of usage complete with search box of the lemmas.

 

Grande dizionario della lingua italiana di Salvatore Battaglia (Large dictionary of the Italian language by Salvatore Battaglia)
The corpus currently contains all the volumes of the GDLI in a temporary experimental version. Two search modes are available: a free search by word that extracts all the contexts in which at least one of the words inserted is to be found, and a sequence search, which enables the identification of portions of text (including the punctuations marks). The volumes can also be leafed through, for images.

 

Grande dizionario italiano Hoepli (Hoepli Large Italian dictionary)
By Aldo Gabrielli, of 2018, hosted on the web site of the daily newspaper la Repubblica.

 

Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d'Ortografia e Pronunzia (DOP) (Multimedial and multilingual Italian Dictionary of Orthography and Pronunciation)
The DOP, originally edited by Bruno Migliorini, Carlo Tagliavini and Pietro Fiorelli, is here presented in a multimedial version, under the aegis of the RAI, reviewed, updated and enlarged by Pietro Fiorelli and Tommaso Francesco Borri.

 

Il nuovo De Mauro (The New De Mauro)
Available on the web site of the journal Internazionale.

 

Il Sabatini Coletti: dizionario della lingua italiana (the Sabatini Coletti: dictionary of the Italian language)
Available on the web site of the daily newspaper il Corriere della Sera.

 

Treccani
Dictionary of the Italian language.

 

 

Historical dictionaries of Italian

Atlante Grammaticale della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (AGLIO) Grammatical Atlas of the Origins of the Italian Language)
This database, which is modelled on the traditional linguistic atlas (on the type of the AIS), makes available for phonology and morphology research the database of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) and in particular the subcorpus consisting of the significant texts (TS).

 

Dizionario.org
An online version of the Dizionario della Lingua Italiana by Niccolò Tommaseo and Bernardo Bellini, issued in 8 volumes in the years 1861-1879. The first part of the work is currently available, covering the letters A-G, with around 55,000 items.

 

Tommaseo online
An online version, curated by the Accademia della Crusca, of the Dictionary of the Italian language by Tommaseo, consultable through a search engine that also enables the retrieval of items and concordances.

 

Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (Dictionary of the Academics)
Contains the five editions of the Vocabolario degli Accademici (Dictionary of the Academics), consultable with advanced searches enabling the selection of specific sections of each edition of the Dictionary (definitions, examples, Greek and Latin words, foreignisms, locutions, proverbs, words in live use, sources).

 

 

Etymological dictionaries

Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI) online (Italian Etymological Lexicon)
Online digital version in the form of a database, equipped with a search box of the lemmas, of the volumes published up to now (the work has been in the process of publication since 1968) of the Lessico etimologico italiano (Italian Etymological Lexicon), an etymological dictionary of the Italian language and its dialects, of indispensable reference for historians of the Italian language, edited since 1979 by Max Pfister and Wolfgang Schweickard at the behest of the Commissione per la filologia romanza (The Commission for Romance philology. The Accademia della Crusca collaborates in the project.

 

 

Regional and dialectal dictionaries of Italian

Dizionario italiano-ladino Val Badia (Val Badia Italian-Ladino dictionary)
Curated by Sara Moling, in collaboration with Ulrike Frenademez, Xenia Ruggeri and Marlies Valentin.

 

Méridionalismes chez les auteurs italiens contemporains: dictionnaire étymologique
This etymological dictionary curated by Arnaldo Moroldo (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis) records all the dialectal forms encountered in a literary corpus of Sicilian writers (including Consolo, Bufalino, Camilleri, Santiapichi and Enzo Russo) not mentioned in other dictionaries of Italian. For each item are indicated the references of the literary works and the related occurrences, philological notes (origin, meaning and etymon) and a translation into French.

 

Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (New Sicilian-Italian dictionary)
Compiled by Antonio Traina and published in Palermo in 1868 for Giuseppe Pedone Lauriel. A work in the public domain digitalised from the collections of the Biblioteca A. Monteverdi (the A. Monteverdi Library) of La Sapienza University of Rome.

 

Il Vocabolario del fiorentino contemporaneo (The dictionary of contemporary Florentine)
A project created in 1994 at the behest of Giovanni Nencioni, the then President of the Accademia della Crusca.

 

Vocabolario storico-etimologico del veneziano (Historical-etymological dictionary of Venetian)
This project, directed by Lorenzo Tomasin and Luca D'Onghia, developed by the University of Lausanne, the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the Istituto OVI - Opera del Vocabolario italiano of the Cnr of Florence, and funded by the Fondo nazionale svizzero per la ricerca, is based on the reconnaissance of several sets of sources: for the medieval period, the Venetian corpus collected by the OVI of the Cnr of Florence for the Treasury of the Italian language of its origins (CorpusVEV); for the subsequent period the lengthy series of dictionaries and glossaries that, starting from the dawn of the Middle Ages, have described the Venetian (Lexicographic corpus). The testimony of these two corpora is accompanied by direct access to a set of ancient and modern texts (Texts in Venetian).

 

Vocabolario veneziano e padovano co' termini e modi corrispondenti Toscani
By Gasparo Patriarchi, in the 3rd edition of 1821 published by the Printing Press of the Seminary of Padua. A work in the public domain digitalised from the collections of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.