Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române


Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române is the most important dictionary of the Romanian language, published by the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy.

Editorial history

It was first edited in 1975. In 1988 a supplement, named DEX-S, was published, which included omissions of the previous edition. The second edition was published in 1996 and it included some new definitions and the spelling changes of 1993. This edition has over 65,000 main entries. The last edition was published in 2016 and contains 67,000 entries.

dexonline.ro

dexonline.ro is a website on which Romanian-language dictionaries including DEX are being made available on the Internet, by digitising their collected entries and making the resulting database available for other external projects. As of August 2019, it contained over 180,000 entries..
In the first half of 2020 the website dexonline.ro was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Romanian Wikipedia.
According to Alexa and SimilarWeb traffic rankings, the website dexonline.ro is the 35th and 46th most visited in Romania respectively, as of July 2020.