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MODERN DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN WORDS IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE
(Dizionario moderno delle parole straniere nella lingua italiana)
Tullio De Mauro, Marco Mancini
The publication
Foreign words? All in one dictionary.
This volume contains the major contributions made by other languages to
the Italian vocabulary.
How is a given foreign word pronounced or written? What type of word is
it? Does it have a plural form? Is it really necessary to use it or can
the same thing be said using an Italian term?
The Dizionario Moderno delle parole straniere nella lingua italiana, just
published by Garzanti, answers all these questions and more.
Beginning with the title, “foreign words” are the subject, an
expression which seemed preferable to other more specialist terms such
as “loan”, “exoticism”, “foreignism”, etc.
It refers to those words whose stem originates from a language other than
Italian.
This new dictionary is a development from Utet's Grande Dizionario Italiano
dell'Uso; in helping to clarify many interpretative difficulties, it represents
an instrument of fundamental importance. The entries include very widespread
terms (film, bazar, cabaret, yogurt, bambù, etc.), or others still
consider exotic (marimba, pulgada, amok, olla podrida, etc.). It also
gives numerous neologisms, especially those relating to the languages
of information technology, economics, gastronomy.
It also lists false exoticisms and pseudo-loans.
- 800 pages, with indices according to the languages and specialist sectors.
- 10,650 entries from approximately 70 foreign languages, from Albanian
to Vietnamese: Arabic, Aramaic, Bantu, Catalan, Japanese, Lapp, Polish,
Quechua, Sanskrit, Tibetan, to cite just a few.
- Etymologies, phonetic transcriptions, usage marks (symbols indicating
the frequency and fields of use of the words: e.g. FO fundamental, LE
literary, TS technical specialist, etc.).
- Two appendices: one of words derived from other languages, but now largely
Italianised in writing and pronunciation; the other of expressions constructed
on analogous foreign terms.
- 150 specialist subjects, 724 computer terms, 223 economic terms, 254
gastronomic terms, etc.
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