''Il Devoto–Oli. Vocabolario della lingua italiana'' is one of the best-known
monolingual dictionaries
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, p ...
of the
Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 m ...
, edited by
Luca Serianni
Luca Serianni (; 30 October 1947 – 21 July 2022) was an Italian linguist and philologist.
Biography
Serianni was professor of Italian language at Sapienza Università di Roma.
A student of Arrigo Castellani, he conducted research about Itali ...
and
Maurizio Trifone
Maurizio Trifone (born 1953) is an Italian linguist and lexicographer.
Biography
Trifone is professor of Italian language at the University of Cagliari.
From 1995 to 2005 he was professor of Lexicography and Lexicology at the Foreigners Universit ...
.
Its first edition is dated 1971 and it is published annually by the
Le Monnier.
External links
Official site
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Italian dictionaries
1971 books