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978-3423590457. The Deutsches Wörterbuch (German: [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈvœʁtɐbuːx]; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated DWB, is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence. [1][2] Encompassing modern High German vocabulary in use since 1450, it also includes loanwords adopted from other languages into German.
The precursor German dictionaries were glossaries, of which the Abrogans from the 8th century is the oldest known. Petrus Dasypodius, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum, 1535. Frisius (Johannes Fries, Dictionarium Latinogermanicum, 1541, 1556) Pictorius (Josua Maaler, Die Teütsch spraach, 1556) Adelung (Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der ...
Logo in 2017 Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first edition by Konrad Duden (1880). The Duden (German pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] [2] is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022 and thus ceased to exist.
LEO GmbH. LEO (meaning Link Everything Online) is an Internet-based electronic dictionary and translation dictionary initiated by the computer science department of the Technical University of Munich in Germany. After a spin-out, the dictionaries have been run since 3 April 2006 by the limited liability company Leo GmbH, formed by the members ...
254,694 (November 2018)[1] Launched. 2002. Current status. active. dict.cc is a free, multilingual online dictionary. For offline use the dictionaries can be downloaded as text files and used in various programs on Windows, iOS, Android [2][3] and Palm OS. Dict.cc GmbH have their main office in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.
List of German abbreviations. This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u."
The DFWB originates from a proposal made by Friedrich Kluge, originally conceived as a complement to the Deutsches Wörterbuch of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Since the publication of the first volume (A–K) by the project's founder Hans Schulz in 1913, the project has had a chequered history. Otto Basler, who took over the work after Schulz's ...
The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical gender; the three genders are masculine, feminine, and neuter. Words for objects without obvious masculine or feminine characteristics like 'bridge' or 'rock' can be masculine or feminine.