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• Corominas, Joan, and José A. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. 6 vols. Biblioteca Románica Hispánica, Diccionarios 7. Madrid: Gredos, 1980-1991.
  Bobst Ref1 PC4580.C59 1980
  The best scholarly etymological dictionary.
  
  
• Dworkin, Steven N., and David J. Billick. Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts: A Bibliography of Concordances, Glossaries, Vocabularies, and Selected Word Studies. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1993. xiii+207 pp.
  Bobst PC4715.Z5 D85 1993
  An enlarged version of a series of articles with a similar title that was published in La Corónica. Entries are arranged by the centuries in which the medieval Spanish texts were written. Particularly helpful to those who wish to study the vocabulary of an individual author or work.
  
  
• Machado, José Pedro. Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa. 3rd ed. 5 vols. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1977.
  Bobst Ref1 PC5305.D52 1977
  The most authoritative etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language.
  
  
• Moraes e Silva, Antonio de. Grande dicionáario da lingua portuguesa. 10th ed. Lisboa: Editorial Confluencia, [1949-1959].
  Bobst Ref1 PC5327.M73
  
  
• Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. 21st ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, c.1995. 1,513 pp.
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  The most recent edition of the Spanish Academy dictionary is much more comprehensive than earlier editions were. The "Preámbulo" notes the improved etymologies, due to the use of Corominas's studies, and the addition of many technical and scientific terms. Earlier editions generally contained only the vocabulary of leading authors, thus precluding scientific and technical terms, slang, and colloquial expressions. The newer editions of the dictionary also have more americanismos.