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What is the meaning of this word?

What is the etymology of this word?

In what regions is this word used?

These are often answerable using the same resources/references.

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Answer 1

Here are some resources organised by question type:

Question	Resources
What does this word mean? significado definiciones	Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE) rae Diccionario del uso del español (DUE), María Moliner SpanishDict Wiktionary
How do I translate this word to/from Spanish? traducción	Cambridge Dictionary Collins Dictionary SpanishDict Wiktionary #Translations* Google Translate*
Is there a word for this concept/with this definition?	Diccionario reverso de la RAE (IEDRA - formerly DIRAE) (credit Chewie)
How do I correctly use this word in this context?	Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD) rae Diccionario de Dudas y Dificultades de la Lengua Española
What does this latin-american term mean? What does this word mean in this region of Latin America? hispanoamérica diferencias-regionales méxico argentina colombia venezuela chile	Diccionario de americanismos (DAMER) (2010) rae Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense
What does this word mean in a legal context? lenguaje-jurídico	Diccionario del español jurídico (DEJ) rae
How common is this word in modern Spanish?	Google Trends (2004 -) Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) (siglo XI) rae
How common is this word historically? When did this word first gain usage? historia	Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE) (siglo X - siglo XX) rae Google Ngrams (Spanish corpus (2019)) Google books search
When did this word first appear in a dictionary? What did this word mean historically? historia diccionarios significado	Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico de la lengua española (NTLLE) (1495 - 1992) rae Mapa de diccionarios de la RAE (1780, 1817, 1884, 1925, 1992, 2001 simultáneamenta) rae DLE: current
What is the etymology of this word? etimología	Wiktionary* Wiktionary es* Diccionario Etimológico de Chile* Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, Covarrubias (1611) Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana, Coromines (1954) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, Coromines (c.1980) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, Coromines (1973)
What is the origin/meaning of this idiom? expresiones modismos refranes	Vocabulario de refranes y frases proverbiales, Correas (1627) Refranes, y modos de hablar castellanos: con los latinos que les corresponden (1792) Diccionario de refranes, adagios, proverbios modismos, locuciones y frases proverbiales de la lengua espanola (1920) Diccionario de anécdotas, dichos, ilustraciones, locuciones y refranes Seniloquium: Refranes que dizen los viejos
How do you write this word/punctuation? ortografía puntuación	Ortografía de la lengua española (2010) rae Orthographía española (1741) rae Revisions of Spanish orthography / ¿Qué revisiones ha tenido la ortografía española?
How is this word pronounced? pronunciación fonología	Wiktionary #Pronunciation Wikipedia: IPA, AFI forvo.com
How do I write/use this novel word which is not yet in the dictionary? neologismos palabras-raras	Fundéu Twitter: @RAEinforma, #RAEconsultas, #dudaRAE
How does this grammatical rule work? gramática	http://www.wikilengua.org Libro digital Herramientas de español
What does this mathematical term mean? matemáticas	Vocabulari de matemàtiques (en/es/ca)
Misc linguistics	https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/

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Answer 2

There are often questions about the relationship between words in Spanish and closely related languages, or the etymology of words loaned from other languages. Here is a list of analogues of the RAE/DLE etc in the most common such languages referenced on this site:

French francés

• Centre National de Resources Textuelles etc Lexicales (CNRTL)
• Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Française (DVLF)

Italian italiano

• Treccani

Catalan catalán

• Diccionari de l'Enciclopèdia Catalana
• Diccionari català-valencià-balear (DCVB)
• Diccionari de la llengua catalana de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans (DIEC2)
• Diccionari de Alguerés
• L’Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català (ALDC)
• Diccionari de sinònims de frases fetes
• Vocabulari de la llengua catalana medieval
• Phonology Case study: sound patterns in Catalan
• https://www.iec.cat/llengua/recursos.asp

Occitan

• Occitan's automatic translator (gencat.cat) (Aranese)
• Dictionnaire de l'Occitan Médiéval
• dicod'Òc

Misc

• Wiktionary: Translations
• Wikipedia: Arabic language influence on the Spanish language

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Other possibilities to add: portugués, inglés

Answer 3

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