List of Croatian dictionaries
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This is a list of Croatian
dictionaries
published before the 20th century.
Croatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
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Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
published before the 20th century.
16th, 17th and 18th century
- 1595 – Faust VrančićFaust VrancicFausto Veranzio or Faust Vrančić was a polymath and bishop from the Venetian Republic.-Family history:...
, Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmaticae et Ungaricae (the first Croatian printed dictionary in the form of a separate work). - 1599 – Bartol KašićBartol KašicBartol Kašić was a Croatian linguist. He wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian...
, Razlika skladanja slovinska (Various Slavic compositions) (a Croatian–ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
manuscript dictionary). - 1649 – Jakov MikaljaJakov MikaljaJakov Mikalja in Croatian, also Giacomo Micaglia in Italian, , was a linguist and lexicographer, born in Peschici, in the Italian region of Apulia, at that time under the Kingdom of Naples...
, Blago jezika slovinskoga (Treasury of the Slavic language) (containing selected words in an idiom in which Čakavian characteristics are grafted upon the main corpus of Ijekavian Štokavian and Ikavian texts). - 1670 – Juraj Habdelić, Dictionar ili rechi slovenske z vexega ukup ebrane (Dictionary of Kajkavian words brought together).
- Pavao Ritter VitezovićPavao Ritter VitezovicPavao Ritter Vitezović was a noted Croatian writer, historian, linguist and publisher.-Early life:Pavao Ritter Vitezović was born in Senj to a family of a frontier soldier. His father was descended from a German immigrant from Alsace, and his mother was Croatian...
, Lexicon Latino-Illyricum (a manuscript dictionary in which the author carried out in practice his views on the language and spelling).- 1728 – Ardelio della Bella, Dizionario Italiano–Latino–Illirico (mainly based on Ragusan literary sources, but also includes Čakavian sources; supplemented by a short grammar of the Croatian language).
- Adam Patačić, Dictionarium latino-illyricum et germanicum (manuscript dictionary).
- 1740 – Ivan BelostenecIvan BelostenecIvan Belostenec was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer.-Life:In 1616. he joined the Paulists. He studied philosophy in Vienna and theology in Rome...
, Gazophylacium seu latino-illyricorum onomatum aerarium.(a Kajkavian based monumental dictionary of 50,000 entries) - 1741 – Franjo Sušnik-Andrija Jambrešić, Lexicon latinum interpretatione illyrica, germanica et hungarica locu pIes (the names "Croatian" and "Illyrian" are used synonymously).
- 1778 – Marijan Lanosović, Slavonisches Worterbuch (a list of GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
words and their Croatian equivalents), added to the grammar entitled Neue Einleitung zur slavonischen Sprache, Osijek. (M. Lanosović is the author of several Croatian dictionaries which have remained in manuscript).
- 1740 – Ivan Belostenec
19th century
- 1801 – Joakim Stulić, Lexicon latino-italico-illyricum, Budim.
- 1802—03 – Josip VoltiggiJosip VoltiggiJosip Voltiggi or Josip Voltić was a linguist from Istria.In 1803, he published his Grammatica illirica, in Ricoslovnik illiricskoga, italianskoga i nimacskoga jezika s’ jednom pridpostavljenomm grammatikom illi pismenstvom: sve ovo sabrano i sloxeno od Jose Voltiggi Istranina Josip Voltiggi or...
, Ričoslovnik iliričkoga, italijanskoga i nimačkoga jezika (A dictionary of the Illyrian, Italian and German languages) (based on Ikavian; Jekavian forms are cited along with Ikavian; Ekavian forms refer to Ikavian). - 1806 – Joakim Stulić, Rječosložje ilirsko-talijansko-latinsko (Illyrian—Italian—Latin dictionary), Dubrovnik.
- 1810 – Joakim Stulić, Vocabolario italiano-illirico-latino, Dubrovnik (the bulk of the dictionary was excerpted from published works of Ragusan writers, along with DalmatiaDalmatiaDalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....
n, HerzegovinianHerzegovinaHerzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there is no official border distinguishing it from the Bosnian region, it is generally accepted that the borders of the region are Croatia to the west, Montenegro to the south, the canton boundaries of the Herzegovina-Neretva...
, BosnianBosnia (region)Bosnia is a eponomous region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders. The other eponomous region, the southern, other half of the country is...
, SlavoniaSlavoniaSlavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...
n and IstriaIstriaIstria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
n sources. More than 80,000 words on 4,600 pages, excerpted from 120 authors). - 1842 – Ivan MažuranićIvan MažuranicIvan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician—probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century...
and Josip Užarević, Njemačko—ilirski slovar (A German–Illyrian dictionary. First "truly modern" Croatian dictionary). - 1874–75 : Bogoslav ŠulekBogoslav ŠulekBogoslav Šulek, born Bohuslav Šulek , was a Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer. He founded much of the Croatian terminology in the areas of social and natural sciences, technology and civilization. He is considered one of the most influential Croatian philologists of all time.-Early...
, Hrvatsko-njemačko-talijanski rječnik znanstvenog nazivlja (Croatian–German–Italian dictionary of scientific terminology. The cornerstone of modern civilisation terminology). - 1880–1976 : Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (Dictionary of Croatian or SerbianSerbian languageSerbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
), JAZU, Zagreb. The neogrammarianNeogrammarianThe Neogrammarians were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change...
based magnum opus. More than 250,000 words.
External links
- croDict.com – online Croatian–English–German Dictionary
- List of Croatian dictionaries, by the Institute of Croatian Language and LinguisticsInstitute of Croatian Language and LinguisticsThe Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics is an official institute in Croatia whose purpose is to preserve and foster the Croatian language. It traces its history back to 1948, when it was part of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts...
- A Chronological List of Prominent Croatian Dictionaries
- Web interface to Goran Igaly's English-Croatian free dictionary
- Croatian–English–Croatian Dictionary About 180 000 translated words
- www.DrDicty.com – Comprehensive Croatian dictionary with phrases, proverbs and examples