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The Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (also called Enciclopedia Espasa, or Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe, after its publisher, founded by José Espasa Anguera) is a Spanish encyclopedia. It comprises 72 volumes (numbered from 1 to 70, with parts 18 and 28 consisting of two volumes each) published from 1908 to 1930 plus a ten-volume ...
José Espasa Anguera (1840 in La Pobla de Cérvoles – July 4, 1911 in Barcelona) was a Spanish publisher. He is most famous for having been the driving force behind the prestigious Enciclopedia Espasa. Coming from a very humble rural family, and still a child, he had to move to Barcelona.
Espasa-Calpe was a Spanish publisher which existed during the 20th century. It was created in 1925, [1] by the union of Editorial Calpe, founded by Nicolás María de Urgoiti in 1918, [2] and Editorial Espasa, founded by José and Pau Espasa i Anguera in 1860. [3] The publisher, named Espasa-Calpe, was owned by Papelera Española.
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service. Many dictionaries have been digitized from their print versions and are available at online libraries.
Calpe (river), a river of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor; HMS Calpe, two ships of the Royal Navy; Espasa Calpe, Spanish book publisher; Antonio Calpe (1940–2021), Spanish professional footballer; Calpe Treitschke, 1825, a moth genus synonymous with Calyptra; Calpe Quoy & Gaimard, 1827, a siphonophore genus now accepted as Abylopsis
The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited, and published by the Royal Spanish Academy , with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language .
The company Espasa Hermanos y Salvat, a forerunner of the publishing houses Espasa i Salvat, was created in 1869 by Manuel Salvat i Xivixell (1842–1901) and the brothers Pau (1835–1927) and Josep Espasa i Anguera (1840–1911). [3]
Standard Spanish, also called the norma culta, 'cultivated norm', [1] refers to the standard, or codified, variety of the Spanish language, which most writing and formal speech in Spanish tends to reflect.