A Linguarae is a curated collection of language tools — dictionaries, thesauri, and translators — created to help students, academics, readers, and writers explore, understand, and appreciate languages and cultures of the world. The word ‘Linguarae’ was coined by Victoria L. Redfern (March 2026).
French:
- Dictionary: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais
- Thesaurus: https://www.synonymo.fr/
German:
- DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache) https://www.dwds.de/ Extremely high quality, scientifically reliable, maintained by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
Classic historical dictionary Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – the famous Grimm brothers’ dictionary. Available free: https://woerterbuchnetz.de/ (search for DWB). The most comprehensive historical German dictionary ever made.
OpenThesaurus
→ https://www.openthesaurus.de/ Largest free German synonym dictionary.
Spanish:
- Dictionary: https://dle.rae.es/ (Real Academia Española – official & free)
- Thesaurus: https://www.sinonimos.com/
Italian:
- Dictionary: https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/
- Thesaurus: https://www.sinonimi-contrari.it/
Swedish:
- Dictionary: https://svenska.se/
- Thesaurus: https://www.synonymer.se/
English:
- Dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/ or https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
- Thesaurus: https://www.thesaurus.com/
Latin:
Note: Machine translation for Latin is not perfect (especially for complex or classical sentences), so always double-check with a proper dictionary such as those below.
Lingvanex → English to Latin translator (fast & free)
https://lingvanex.com/translation/english-to-latin
Translate.com → Latin English
https://www.translate.com/latin-english
All of the above are freely available websites.