Beolingus

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Beolingus is a German-English, German-Spanish and German-Portuguese online dictionary from the Technical University of Chemnitz . His name is a play on words from the name of the South Asian bird species Beo - which is capable of variable sound formation - and the Latin word lingua for language .

Function / properties

Beolingus offers translations of more than 811,000 (German-English), 320,000 (German-Spanish) and 44,000 (German-Portuguese) terms (as of February 2020). In addition to the word translations, explanations, synonyms , antonyms , sayings, aphorisms and quotations can also be found there. It is one of the three largest German-English dictionaries alongside dict.cc and LEO . German as well as American pronunciation by native speakers can be heard. It also offers translations into Spanish and Portuguese.

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Individual evidence

  1. Frank Richter: Dictionary (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz). In: dict.tu-chemnitz.de. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .