The ''Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana'' (or DECat ) 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. E ...

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

compiled by

Joan Corominas Joan Coromines i Vigneaux (; also frequently spelled ''Joan Corominas''; Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, by Joan Corominas icand José Antonio Pascual, Editorial Gredos, 1989, Madrid, . Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1 ...

with cooperation of Joseph Gulsoy and

Max Cahner Max Cahner i Garcia (3 December 1936 – 14 October 2013) was a Catalan politician, and editor and historian of Catalan literature. Career Cahner was born in Bad Godesberg, now a municipal district of Bonn, Germany, to a Jewish-Catalan father a ...

. It was published by Curial Edicions Catalanes and consists of nine volumes, published between 1980 and 1991; a tenth volume (2001) contains a "suplement" and indexes. It was designed with the same criteria and methodology as the other major dictionaries by the same author: 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 ...

'' (1954-1957) and the '' Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico'' (1980-1991).

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