Logos Dictionary

{{Short description|Multilingual online dictionary}}

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Logos Dictionary is a multilingual online dictionary provided by Logos Group, a European translation company. It was founded in 1995 by Rodrigo Vergara,{{Cite journal |last=Esselink |first=Bert |date=2001 |title=Turtles and Terms |url=https://mt-archive.net/00/LangInt-2001-Vergara.pdf |journal=Language International}} and was one of the first and largest multilingual dictionaries on the web. In 1996, it was made freely accessible on the Web, and had over a thousand translators contributing to over a million entries.{{Cite web |last=Giussani |first=Bruno |date=April 15, 1997 |title=Italian Company Turns Dictionary into Living Organism |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/041597euro.html |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=archive.nytimes.com}} At the time, it was described by translator Robert Clark as the fastest growing dictionary.{{Cite book |url=https://aclanthology.org/1996.tc-1.5.pdf |title=The Logos Living Dictionary - an Unprecedented Internet Resource |date=1996 |publisher=ACL Anthology }}{{Cite book |url=https://mt-archive.net/LangInt-1995-Orel.pdf |title=Computer Assisted Translation seminar in Slovenia |date=1995 |publisher=Language International }}

As of 2005 it contained over seven million terms in over 200 languages, some of them minority languages as Breton, Leonese, Scots or Venetian.

The dictionary offers a variety of search options, and requires free registration in order to add or update translations.{{Cite book |last=Velez |first=Antonino |url=https://iris.unipa.it/bitstream/10447/20183/1/Dictionnaires%20%C3%A0%20port%C3%A9e%20de%20souris.pdf |title=Dictionnaires à portée de souris |date=2007 |publisher=Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher Monza/Italy}} It includes a multilingual portal for using the dictionary, {{Cite book |url=https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB436/docs/EBB-013c.pdf |title=Untangling the Web |date=2007 |publisher=Center for Digital Content, National Security Administration |pages=290–292}} a Linguistic Resources database of over 500 glossaries, a Universal Conjugator database for conjugation of verbs,{{Cite web |title=From the Print Media to the Internet, by Marie Lebert {{!}} The Online Books Page |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=pg27030 |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}} and a children's dictionary with multilingual usage examples.{{Cite book |last1=Scheller-Boltz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnJmDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22logos+children's+dictionary%22&pg=PA168 |title=Lexikographische Innovation - Innovative Lexikographie: Bi- und multilinguale Wörterbücher in Gegenwart und Zukunft: Projekte, Konzepte, Visionen. |last2=Weinberger |first2=Helmut |date=2017-02-01 |page=168 |publisher=Georg Olms Verlag |isbn=978-3-487-15541-8 |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Logos Dictionary for Children |url=https://www.logosdictionary.org/childrendictionary.php |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=www.logosdictionary.org |language=en}}