The ''Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana'' (in English, ''Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language'') is an
etymological dictionary
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and ''Webster's'', will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
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compiled by the Catalan
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
Joan Corominas (1905–1997), and first published in 1961—with revised editions in 1973, 1993, and 2008—by
Gredos in
Madrid
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.
This work has received high marks from critics in the field of Romance philology,
and its author has been recognized with the highest honors of Spanish civil society, such as the
Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas, in 1989, which was for the entirety of his work, including both Spanish and Catalan dictionaries.
Context
The dictionary is an abridged version, updated with additional entries, of the
Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana
The ''Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana'' is a four-volume etymological dictionary of Spanish compiled by the Catalan philologist Joan Corominas (1905-1997), and first published by Francke Verlag in Bern, Switzerland, in ...
, and is intended for the non-specialist. It gives the origins of Spanish vocabulary, with frequent references to the rest of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as to Latin.
See also
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Joan Corominas
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Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana
The ''Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana'' is a four-volume etymological dictionary of Spanish compiled by the Catalan philologist Joan Corominas (1905-1997), and first published by Francke Verlag in Bern, Switzerland, in ...
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Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico''
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Diccionari Etimològic i Complementari de la Llengua Catalana''
References
Bibliography
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External links
The Corominas
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Etymological dictionaries