Foreign Languages Subject Guide

Historical Dictionaries / Etymology

 

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Like the Oxford English Dictionary for English, the following dictionaries of German, Italian, French, and Spanish have scholarly, detailed entries tracing the history of word usage through quotations from different time periods.



Deutsches Worterbuch

PF 3625 .G7 (Ref)

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Diccionario Historico De La Lengua Espanola

PC 4580.A2x (Ref)

Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise

PC 2625 .R552 1992 (Ref)

Grande Dizionario Della Lingua Italiana

PC 1625 .B3 (Ref)
21 vols.

Tresor de la langue francaise Dictionnaire de la Langue du XIX et du XX Siecle

PC 2625 .I4 (Ref)

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