Zingarelli
Encyclopedia
Zingarelli is the classic modern Italian
monolingual dictionary
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Described as a Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana di Nicola Zingarelli
, it is published annually by the Zanichelli publishing house.
The first edition is dated 1917.
The more modest, single volume Zingarelli minore is better value for the student of Italian. It is heavily illustrated, and contains many useful appendices.
Italian language
Italian 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...
monolingual dictionary
Dictionary
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Described as a Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana di Nicola Zingarelli
Nicola Zingarelli
Nicola Zingarelli was an Italian philologist, the founder of the Zingarelli Italian dictionary.He was born in Cerignola and died in Milan....
, it is published annually by the Zanichelli publishing house.
The first edition is dated 1917.
The more modest, single volume Zingarelli minore is better value for the student of Italian. It is heavily illustrated, and contains many useful appendices.