Resumen de Dicționariul Limbei Române (LM) by A. T. Laurian and I. C. Massim – the Digital Form of the First Romanian Academic Dictionary

Marius-Radu Clim, Madalin Ionel Patrascu, Elena Tamba

• We aim to present a project called DICTIONE, the digitalization of the first Academic Dictionary written in the Romanian language, the Dicționariul limbei române (LM) by A. T. Laurian and I. C. Massim. LM was published in three volumes between 1873-1877, has 3600 pages and includes 70,000 headwords out of which over 20,000 words are the personal creation of the authors. This dictionary is unique in Romanian cultural history, due to the fact that the two lexicographers did not aim to illustrate the language vocabulary in a particular moment of its history, but instead intended to impose a certain direction to the language, beyond its use at that time. A novelty is the fact that the authors proposed new words which they attempted to popularize through this dictionary. The impa ct of this work on Romanian culture is a significant one: from more than 20,000 newly-created words, based on terms taken from Latin, most stayed in use and became neologisms. This fact led to the enrichment of Romanian terminology in many domains and to the modernization of the Romanian language at the same time as that of other European cultures.