Joan Coromines i Vigneaux ( Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈaŋ kuɾuˈminəs] ; also frequently spelled Joan Corominas ; Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain 1905 – Pineda de Mar , Catalonia , Spain , 1997) was a linguist who made important contributions to the study of Catalan , Spanish , and other Romance languages .
7-408: The Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico is a discursive etymological dictionary of Spanish compiled by Joan Coromines (also spelled Corominas) in collaboration with José Antonio Pascual . It was completed in the late 1970s and published in five volumes in the early 1980s. The entries Y and Z plus an index of the five volumes was published as a sixth volume in 1991. The dictionary
14-561: Is an expansion and consolidation of earlier etymological publications by Corominas, particularly the mid-1950s Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana . This work has been called simply "the best etymological dictionary of Spanish." Throughout more than six thousand pages, Corominas establishes the origin and development of Castilian vocabulary, both archaic and modern, Peninsular and Latin American, often referencing other Iberian and Romance languages. The adjective "Hispanic" in
21-563: The Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana (1954–1957), in four volumes, first version of his etymological dictionary of Spanish (with an abridged version, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana , first published in 1961); the Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana , which investigates the origin of most words in the Catalan language (9 volumes);
28-615: The Onomasticon Cataloniae , documenting place and person names, old and new, in all the Catalan-speaking territories (8 volumes); and, with José Antonio Pascual , the Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico , the most thorough etymological dictionary of Spanish extant today. Following this research, he—along with Koldo Mitxelena —made key contributions to the study of the Basque language 's geographical extent across
35-589: The Americas . An essential aspect of the dictionary is its critical character. The author supports his etymological judgments and dates of first documentation by citing earlier dictionaries and historical texts, showing in detail why he accepts or rejects previous scholarship. The Seminari de Filologia i Informàtica at the Autonomous University of Barcelona began a project in 1992 to put the dictionary in digital form. Joan Coromines His main works are
42-659: The Pyrenees during the early Middle Ages. Coromines studied at the University of Barcelona, and started working on linguistics from an early age. At the same time, he held strongly Catalanist convictions all his life. He was forced into exile after the Spanish Civil War , eventually holding a professorship at the University of Chicago , in 1948. He returned to Catalonia later, and spent the rest of his life working on his main works:
49-573: The title is used in a broad sense, recognizing that the historical study of the Spanish language must take into account its interactions with other languages. Thus, Galician , Galician-Portuguese , Leonese , Asturian , Aragonese , Catalan , and the now-extinct Mozarabic are mentioned in the context of their lexical influence on Spanish. The dictionary includes not only the core vocabulary of Latin- and Romance-derived words, but also words of non-Romance origin, notably Basque , Arabic , and languages of
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