What is the best monolingual dictionary of Spanish? Tópico cartaz: RafaLee
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RafaLee
Austrália
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espanhol para inglês
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Dear my fellow translators,
I am going to buy a monolingual dictionary of Spanish, can any1 recommend the best monolingual general dictionary?
Thank you very much
Rafie
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Espanha
Local time: 18:06
espanhol para inglês
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| Depends on what you're looking for... | Oct 29, 2003 |
To begin with, get the desktop link to the DRAE. If you're looking for the proper use of Spanish, try María Moliner, and if you need to consult common doubts (even for native speakers), there's Seco's Diccionario de dudas. That's a good beginning you could browse over.
| | | | | Pros and cons | Oct 29, 2003 |
Hi Rafa
My very favourite is "Diccionario del español actual", by Manuel Seco, but:
(1) It is not available on CD-Rom.
(2) Its corpus is based on European Spanish, that is, there's a lot of Latin American Spanish terms that don't appear there.
If you have a good Internet access, I'd suggest not buy the DRAE, as you can use the online version for free (www.rae.es).
If ... See more Hi Rafa
My very favourite is "Diccionario del español actual", by Manuel Seco, but:
(1) It is not available on CD-Rom.
(2) Its corpus is based on European Spanish, that is, there's a lot of Latin American Spanish terms that don't appear there.
If you have a good Internet access, I'd suggest not buy the DRAE, as you can use the online version for free (www.rae.es).
If you're interesed in dictionaries on CD-Rom,
I'd go for the María Moliner, as it is usually a bit more complete than the DRAE.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Jero ▲ Collapse
| | | | | another suggestion | Oct 29, 2003 |
I agree with what has been said by the other colleagues about DRAE and M. Moliner dictionaries. This last one is definitely the best on cd-rom. However, I would like to add also CLAVE, which is not as complete as the other two, but it has lots of words that belong to slangs or that are typically used in South America. Moreover it is also quite cheap, which is not a bad thing! Of course, it depends on what you're looking for...
Good luck
Cecilia
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Maria Belarra
Espanha
Local time: 18:06
francês para espanhol
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| "Diccionario del español actual", o "el Seco" | Oct 30, 2003 |
Definitely, "Diccionario del español actual", by Manuel Seco, or Clave, which is maybe not as good but is the one I work with and has never let me down. My advice is not to use use "Maria Moliner". It was excellent in its time, but the language in it is now it's old fashioned..
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