Credo Reference
Credo Reference helps you build your research vocabulary with dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, and other reference materials.
Dictionaries and Linguistic Tools
- Corpus del español This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words in more than 20,000 Spanish texts from the 1200s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these.
- Corpus Diacrónico del Español This database, created by the Real Academia Española, contains over 200 million words of the Spanish language from earliest times to 1975. The corpus is drawn from the widest range of texts in order to provide the fullest panorama of the Spanish language.
- Corpus do português This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 45 million words in almost 57,000 Portuguese texts from the 1300s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these.
- Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval Hosted by the University of Vigo, this dictionary of dictionaries forms a lexical corpus of medieval Galician.
- Real Academia - Diccionario de la Lengua Española The Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española or DRAE is the most authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. With over 85,000 entries and almost 200,000 definitions, including many referring to terms from Latin America and the Philippines, the DRAE also gives indications of usage and historical significance. An essential online reference tool for anyone working with the Spanish language.
- Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool is an online interactive resource to assist users in the learning of the deciphering and reading of manuscripts written in Spanish during the early modern period, roughly from the late 15th to the 18th century. This Tool presents digitized manuscripts, typed transcriptions and sample alphabets to help the user decipher and read the early-modern Spanish handwriting styles. The main content of the Spanish Paleography Tool consists of a selected number of digital copies of manuscripts from La Española dating from sixteenth and seventeenth century. The sample manuscripts showcased in the Tool are representative of the different handwriting styles prevalent throughout the Spanish-language world during early modern times: cortesana handwriting, procesal handwriting, encadenada handwriting, and humanística handwriting. This tool is an open source project of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institue (CUNY DSI) at the City College of New York.