Dicionarul

Dicionarul is a hypothetical online multilingual dictionary project intended to provide open access lexical data for researchers, students, and translators. The project aims to consolidate entries from multiple languages into a single searchable resource, with support for etymology, pronunciation, grammatical information, usage examples, and semantic relationships such as synonyms and antonyms. Dicionarul emphasizes cross-lingual linking, allowing users to explore translations and cognates across language families.

Origins and development: Conceptualized in the early 2020s as part of a broader movement toward open lexicography, the project envisions a community-driven model combining editorial oversight with user contributions, similar to other collaborative dictionaries.

Content and structure: Each entry includes lemma, part of speech, sense definitions, etymology, phonetic transcription, usage notes, and example sentences. The database uses language codes and is designed for interoperability with other lexical resources via APIs. Data licenses are proposed as open and non-restrictive to encourage reuse in education and NLP.

Access and platforms: Dicionarul would be accessible via web interface and mobile apps, with offline data packs and an API for developers. Community governance would include an editorial board and contributor guidelines.

Impact and reception: If realized, Dicionarul could support language learning, linguistic research, and natural language processing tasks by offering a centralized, multilingual lexical resource. It would complement existing dictionaries and corpora rather than replace them.