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Rioja (pronounced) is a wine region in Spain, with denominación de origen calificada (D.O.Ca., "Qualified Designation of Origin," the highest category in Spanish wine regulation). Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava. Rioja is further subdivided into three ...
The etymology of the toponym Rioja is complex and has been much discussed. The main theories point to different origins: the traditional popular one that makes it correspond to the river Oja, the one that points to the term Rivalia that would be translated as "land of streams", the one that points as germ a nominal tautology in the term rivo Ohia that would mean "river of fluvial bed"; and the ...
Cover of the 1761 book entitled Historia del venerable, y antiquissimo Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, in the province of La Rioja, by Benito Rubio. [1]The etymology of the toponym Rioja, which is named after the autonomous community of La Rioja and which inherited lands populated by people from La Rioja in the past, such as the province of La Rioja and its capital in Argentina, a ...
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary.
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
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 .
University of La Rioja; Etymology of La Rioja; Rioja, Almería, Spain; Rioja Province (Peru) Rioja District, one of the districts of Rioja Province; Rioja, Peru, the capital of the Rioja Province; La Rioja, Argentina. La Rioja Province, Argentina, the province of which the Argentine city of La Rioja is the capital of. National University of La ...