Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico

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The Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico is a large, detailed dictionary of Spanish etymology created by Joan Coromines (Corominas) with José Antonio Pascual. It was finished in the late 1970s and released in five volumes in the early 1980s. A sixth volume, containing letters Y and Z and an index, appeared in 1991.

This work expands on Coromines’ earlier etymological writing from the 1950s and is often called the best Spanish etymological dictionary. It covers more than 6,000 pages and explains the origins and history of Castilian words, including old and modern terms from Spain and Latin America, with references to other Iberian and Romance languages.

The word “Hispanic” in the title is used broadly to show how Spanish has interacted with other languages. It mentions Galician, Galician-Portuguese, Leonese, Asturian, Aragonese, Catalan, and Mozarabic, as well as non-Romance words from Basque, Arabic, and languages of the Americas. The dictionary is highly critical: Coromines cites earlier dictionaries and historical texts to justify his judgments and to explain why he accepts or rejects previous science. In 1992, the Seminari de Filologia i Informàtica at the Autonomous University of Barcelona began a project to put the dictionary in digital form.