Spanish

This site includes Spanish resources on various aspects.

Dictionaries

• Cambridge Dictionary. A bilingual Spanish-English dictionary with regularly updated Spanish words alongside their English translations.
• Collins. An English to Spanish and Spanish to English dictionary written and updated by experienced lexicographers.
• Diccionario argentino de dudas idiomáticas. By Academia Argentina de Letras. Publisher: Ediciones Santillana S.A. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011) (Print). This monolingual dictionary solves grammar questions on both written and oral Spanish.
• Diccionario de la lengua española  – Real Academia Española (monolingual). Compiles the general lexicon used in Spain and Hispanic countries.
• Diccionario panhispánico de dudas. Provides answers to the use of the Spanish language (pronunciation, accentuation, punctuation, spelling, etc.)
• Larousse Diccionario Avanzado de Español (Monolingual) (Print). This monolingual Spanish dictionary includes almost 100,000 definitions.
• RAE. The official dictionary of the Spanish language.
• Así Hablamos. This is an online resource with slangs from all over Latin America where they provide synonyms or definitions.

Grammar, Vocabulary and Orthography

• Fundéu – Fundación del español urgente. It is updated daily and contains the answer to a large amount of questions about the correct use of the Spanish language (monolingual).
• Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Aims to describe the orthographic system of the Spanish language (monolingual).

Manuals of Style

• Libro de estilo de la lengua española: según la norma panhispánica. Publisher: Espasa (27 November 2018) (Print). This is a manual of Spanish correction and style that shows the way that certain grammatical, orthographic and lexical issues have evolved in recent years (monolingual).
• Manual de estilo de la lengua española by José Martínez de Sousa. Publisher: Ediciones Trea, S.L. (27 March 2015) (Print). This manual contains the basic elements for correct writing in Spanish (monolingual).

Corpus

• El Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). This is a set of texts of different origins from where it is possible to extract information to study words, their meanings and contexts (monolingual).

Legal Translation

• Diccionario panhispánico del español jurídico (monolingual). This dictionary of legal terms has been prepared by a team of more than four hundred jurists and philologists.
• English/Spanish Legal Glossary/Glosario Legal (by Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento, 2006). It includes terms and definitions in both English and Spanish.
• Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs – English/Spanish (by New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, 2014). The bilingual glossary is updated every time new documents present translation challenges resolved by the team.
• Glossary of legal terms – Multilingual Glossary in 13 languages. It gives translation of common legal terminology in 13 languages, including Spanish.
• Termium. The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank, TERMIUM Plus^®, one of the largest terminology and linguistic data banks in the world, gives an access to millions of terms not only in English and Spanish, but in French and Portuguese. Here you can find terms, abbreviations, definitions and usage examples in a wide range of specialized fields.
• Legal Terminology. (By State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Superior Court Operations Division). A large English-Spanish Glossary of legal terminology.

Medical Translation

• Diccionario de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina. A Spanish monolingual dictionary of medical terms.
• Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de traducción del inglés médico by Fernando Navarro (2014). This Spanish and English bilingual dictionary aims to address some of the difficulties a translator can encounter when working with medical texts.
• Encarnación Postigo Pinazo, Marina Calleja Reina, Elisabeth Gabau Vila (Eds.), Disability and Communication: Scientific Analysis, Total Communication, ICT Tools and Case Studies, McGraw Hill Education, 2018. (Spanish and English). A book with scientific and humanistic articles about rare diseases.
• Glossaries about rare diseases (English, Spanish, German). Contains terms that refer to 15 different rare syndroms.
• Interdisciplinary Approaches for Total Communication within Disability Settings (Project mainly in English and Spanish, but also contains resources in German, Dutch and Catalonian). This page offers different multilingual resources on disability and communication.

Scientific Translation

INIS. (By International Nuclear Information System) This online Multilingual Thesaurus provides the translation of scientific terminology from English into Spanish and other languages.