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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 ...
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.
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 .
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.
A photo of Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico de Corominas y Pascual. 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 ...
The magnitude of this enterprise eventually overwhelmed the publishing house and in 1925 they associated with Calpe; the head offices were moved to Madrid, and the direction of the company was given to José Ortega y Gasset. [1] Espasa's legacy lives on today as the Espasa-Calpe publishing house—a major publisher of Spanish reference books.
Royal Calpe Hunt, formerly Civil Hunt, Civil Calpe Hunt and Calpe Hunt, a fox-hunting club based in Gibraltar, which existed during the 19th and 20th centuries; Calpe (Bithynia), a city of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor; Calpe (river), a river of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor; HMS Calpe, two ships of the Royal Navy; Espasa Calpe, Spanish book ...
Illustration of fossils from Brockhaus and Efron's Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907). The encyclopedic dictionary evolved from the dictionary. John Harris subtitled his landmark Lexicon Technicum a "universal English dictionary of Arts and Sciences"; it was the first English-language, alphabetically ordered collection of knowledge.