Language resources and useful links for Spanish

Our translators' pick of useful sites for Spanish terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context. 

 

National websites

Spanish institutional sites

• Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado)
• Constitution (Constitución Española)
• Devolution laws (Estatutos de Autonomía)
• Government
• Parliament — lower house (Congreso de los Diputados)
• Parliament — upper house (Senado)

Other links from Spain

• Bank of Spain
• National Statistics Institute (INE)

Libraries

• Spanish National Library
• Library of Catalonia
• Miguel de Cervantes digital library
• Europeana — European digital library network

 

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

• Spanish style guide — see under style guides for our contractors
• Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española)
• New official Spanish spelling rules (main changes) (2010)
• Cervantes Institute
• Centro Virtual Cervantes
• Fundéu (Fundación del Español Urgente) — Spanish language issues
• Wikilengua del español (Fundéu) — Spanish language wiki
• El País style guide
• How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]
• White paper on institutional translation and interpretation in Spain(2.67 Mb)

 

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Spanish dictionaries

• Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española)
  • Spanish dictionary
  • Panhispanic dictionary of correct Spanish usage (Diccionario panhispánico de dudas)
• Dictionary of correct Spanish usage (Diccionario de dudas del español) — Fundéu
• Dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (Espasa-Calpe/WordReference)

Term banks & glossaries

• Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food (AGROVOC)
• CILF — terminology bank of the International Council of the French language: modern French. Available in English, German and Spanish
• Environment glossary (EEA)
• Electropedia (IEC) — online electrotechnical vocabulary
• ESIS (European Chemical Substances Information System)
• ESLEE (Estudio de los Lenguajes Especializados en Español) — technical and scientific vocabulary
• EU competition policy glossary(925 Kb)   — also in Spanish, French
• EURYDICE — European education thesaurus
• Euskalterm — Basque public term bank
• FishBase — global information system on fish
• Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) — terminology databases, glossaries and thesauri
• Glossaries by language
• ILOLEX — ILO international labour standards
• ILOTERM — International Labour Organisation database
• ILO thesaurus
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) — multilingual directory
• Regional development glossary — EU terminology
• Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Terminology sites (JIAMCATT partners) — International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology
• TERMCAT (Catalan terminology centre) — online terminology dictionaries and databases
• TERMINESP (Spanish Terminology Association)
• Terminómetro (Unión Latina) — terminology
• TERMITE (International Telecommunication Union)
• TERMIUM — Canadian government terminology
• TREMÉDICA — medical terminology resources and translation journal (Panace@)
• UNESCOTERM — terminology and reference database
• UNTERM — United Nations multilingual terminology
• Water (Aqua Lingua)
• World bird database
• WTOTERM — World Trade Organisation terminology