risorse linguistiche
Risorse linguistiche
Una lista di risorse linguistiche per terminologi, interpreti e traduttori
A list of (mostly free) resources for translators and interpreters, including dictionaries, specialised glossaries/termbases and corpora.
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| Name | Type | Language(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRISCO | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | French | |
| Synonymes.com | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | French | |
| Thesaurus.com | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | English | |
| Homolaicus Sinonimi Master | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Italian | |
| Dizionario dei Sinonimi e dei Contrari RCS | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Italian | |
| Virgilio Sinonimi e Contrari | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Italian | |
| Come dire? | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Italian | |
| SM Diccionario Sinónimos y Antónimos | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Spanish | |
| El País sinónimos y antónimos | Synonyms dictionary/Thesaurus | Spanish | |
| Google.it | Search engine | Multilingual | Related sites: Google.com (English), Google.es (Spanish), Google.de (German) |
| Google images | Search engine | Multilingual | Search engine for images |
| Linguee | Multilingual dictionary | Multilingual | A multiple-language dictionary based on translation memories |
| Wordreference | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Reverso | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Bab.la | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Garzanti linguistica | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: Italian. Bilingual dictionaries IT<>EN and IT<>FR |
| Glosbe | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Yandex | Monolingual/bilingual dictionary | Russian | |
| Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé | Monolingual dictionary | French | |
| Le Dictionnaire | Monolingual dictionary | French | Includes citations and word synonyms and antonyms |
| L’Internaute: dictionnaire | Monolingual dictionary | French | |
| Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| The Free Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| Merriam-Webster’s dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| Macmillan Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| Dictionary.com | Monolingual dictionary | English | Includes word synonyms and antonyms |
| Your Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | Includes usage examples and word synonyms and antonyms |
| Collins English Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | |
| OED | Monolingual dictionary | English | Oxford English Dictionary |
| Vocabolario Treccani | Monolingual dictionary | Italian | |
| Dizionario Sabatini Coletti | Monolingual dictionary | Italian | |
| Wiktionary | Monolingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Feb-web Russian dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | Russian | |
| Tol’kovij Slovar Ozegov | Monolingual dictionary | Russian | |
| Diccionario panhispánico de dudas | Monolingual dictionary | Spanish | Provided by Real Academia Española |
| RAE (Real Academia Española) | Monolingual dictionary | Spanish | Website of the official royal institution responsible for overseeing the Spanish language |
| CLAVE | Monolingual dictionary | Spanish | Diccionario de uso del español actual |
| Duden | Monolingual dictionary | German | |
| DWDS | Monolingual dictionary | German | Includes definitions, synonyms, collocations, usage examples |
| OneLook Reverse Dictionary | Monolingual dictionary | English | Makes it possible to identify to concepts/lemmas starting from user-provided definition. Not always efficient. |
| Le Conjugueur | Miscellaneous | French | Verb conjugations in French |
| Howjsay | Miscellaneous | English | English pronunciation dictionary |
| LexisNexis | Miscellaneous | English | A collection of newspaper/magazine article from several countries |
| UsingEnglish.com | Miscellaneous | English | Resources for learners of English. Includes a section on idioms |
| Accademia della Crusca | Miscellaneous | Italian | Website of the national institute for the study and protection of the Italian language |
| Coniugazione.it | Miscellaneous | Italian | Verb conjugations in Italian |
| Proz | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Translators’ forum and collection of domain-specific glossaries |
| EUR-Lex | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Access to European Union law |
| Wordreference forum | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Discussion forum focusing on language/translation issues |
| Babylon MT | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Machine translation system |
| Google Translate | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Machine translation system |
| Stars21 | Miscellaneous | Multilingual | Spell-checker. Includes Russian |
| CILF | Glossary/Terminological database | French | Multiple domains. Provided by Conseil International de la langue française |
| Glossari.it | Glossary/Terminological database | Italian | Domains: acronyms and abbreviations, cultural heritage, photography, food and wines, jewellery, hobbies, health and well-being, natural sciences, sports, history, transportation |
| IATE | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Interactive Terminology for Europe. The EU’s terminological database |
| AGROVOC | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Multilingual agricultural thesaurus. Provided by FAO |
| EU glossary links | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | A large collection of links to specialized dictionaries and glossaries |
| ISI glossary | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Domain: statistics |
| WTO Terms | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Languages: English, French and Spanish. Domains: finance and commerce |
| ITU Terms | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Provided by International Telecommunication Union. Languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Domain: telecommunications |
| Term-minator | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Languages: English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. A collection of terminological resources |
| Deutsche Bundesbank Glossar | Glossary/Terminological database | German | Domain: economics and finance |
| EUFIS glossary | Glossary/Terminological database | German | Domain: European Union and economics |
| Biblit | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | A large collection of links to specialized dictionaries and glossaries |
| Bistro | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | Legal terminology in Italian, German and Ladin |
| Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia | English | |
| Enciclopedia Treccani | Encyclopaedia | Italian | |
| Les-expressions.com | Dictionary of idioms and phrases | French | |
| L’Internaute: expressions | Dictionary of idioms and phrases | French | |
| Pro Writing Aid | Dictionary of idioms and phrases | English | |
| Diccionario de colocaciones del español | Dictionary of idioms and phrases | Spanish | |
| Redensarten | Dictionary of idioms and phrases | German | |
| Lexilogos | Dictionary – miscellaneous | French | Includes etymologies, citations, slang words and encyclopaedic entries |
| Cambridge Dictionaries | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | Monolingual dictionary, dictionary of idioms, learners’ dictionary, economic dictionary |
| Urban dictionary | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | Dictionary of slang and neologisms |
| Netlingo | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | Specialized dictionary. Domains: Internet language, acronyms and symbols |
| Acronymfinder | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | Dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations |
| Dizionario delle citazioni | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Italian | Dictionary of citations (from Italian literature) |
| Etimo.it | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Italian | Etymological dictionary |
| Dizionari Sapere.it | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Italian | Includes a monolingual dictionary, a dictionary of neologisms and word synonyms and antonyms |
| Dizionari on-line Simone | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Italian | Specilized dictionary. Domains: justice, economy, finance and accounting, canon law, European Union, philosophy of politics, psychology, Roman law history, Italian and European law history |
| Neologismi (Accademia della Crusca) | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Italian | Dictionary of neologisms by Accademia della Crusca |
| Hoepli on-line dictionaries | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Main language: Italian. A collection of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries |
| Dizionari del Corriere | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Main language: Italian |
| Larousse | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Main language: French |
| Oxford Dictionaries | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Main language: English Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries |
| Diccionarios El Mundo | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Main language: Spanish. Includes |
| Sensagent | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Aggregates results from various on-line dictionaries |
| Woxikon | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Multilingual | Includes word synonyms, rhyming dictionary, verb conjugations |
| Dic.academic.ru | Dictionary – miscellaneous | Russian | Monolingual dictionary and encyclopaedia |
| Vocabulary.com | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | Includes usage examples in specialized contexts (e.g. news, medicine, science, business, etc.) |
| The 100 best online dictionaries | Dictionary – miscellaneous | English | A very thorough list of online English dictionaries and glossaries. From the description: “Sophisticated terminology, regional dialects, obscure slang, comprehensive commentary with guide words — it’s all in here” |
| BNC BYU | Corpus | English | British National Corpus (BYU interface) |
| COCA BYU | Corpus | English | Corpus of Contemporary American English (BYU interface) |
| WaC corpora | Corpus | Multilingual | Large, web-crawled corpora of Italian, English, French, German and other languages |
| BNC | Corpus | English | British English Corpus (with limited search interface) |
| CORIS/CODIS | Corpus | Italian | |
| Paisà | Corpus | Italian | Italian web-crawled corpus |
| Leeds Internet Corpora | Corpus | Multilingual | |
| Russian National Corpus | Corpus | Russian | |
| CREA | Corpus | Spanish | Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual. Provided by RAE |
| Corpus del Español | Corpus | Spanish | |
| Mannheim corpora | Corpus | German | |
| Sinica Corpus – 中研院漢語平衡語料庫 | Corpus | Chinese – Mandarin | A balanced monolingual corpus of modern Mandarin Chinese (TW traditional) with about 10 million word tokens |
| Chinese National Corpus – 国家语委现代汉语语料库 | Corpus | Chinese – Mandarin | A balanced monolingual corpus of modern Mandarin Chinese (PRC Simplified) with about 13 million word tokens |
| Linguistic Variation in Chinese Speech Communities Corpus (LIVAC) – LIVAC 共時語料庫 | Corpus | Chinese – Multiregional | A synchronic corpus of contemporary Chinese media texts from various Chinese-speaking regions with 2.5 billion character tokens |
| The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC) – 兰卡斯特汉语语料库 | Corpus | Chinese – Mandarin | A monolingual balanced corpus of modern Mandarin Chinese (PRC) constructed with the same selection criteria as the Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English (FLOB) |
| MDBG | Bilingual dictionary | English-Chinese | |
| JISHO | Bilingual dictionary | English-Japanese | |
| Saiga Kanji Dictionary | Bilingual dictionary | English-Japanese | Supports searches using Japanese characters |
| Larousse Italian-French | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-French | |
| Laura Tam Italian-Spanish | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-Spanish | |
| Zanichelli Italian-Spanish | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-Spanish | |
| Sansoni Italian-German | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-German | |
| LingoStudy.de dictionary | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-German | |
| Italian-German dictionary | Bilingual dictionary | Italian-German | |
| Leo | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: German |
| Pons.de | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: German |
| Abbyy Lingvo | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: Russian |
| Lexicool | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | |
| Dicios | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main languages: Italian, English and Spanish |
| Multitran | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: Russian |
| Dict.cc | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: German |
| Infopedia | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: Chinese |
| Infocina | Bilingual dictionary | Multilingual | Main language: Chinese |
| Glossari Lexicool | Glossary/Terminological database | Multilingual | A large collection of links to specialized dictionaries and glossaries |
| Transopedia | Glossary/Terminological database | English | A glossary of terms frequently used in connection with translation and other linguistic services |