La morfología en el Diccionario de la Ciencia y de la Técnica del Renacimiento (DICTER)

Résumé

In addition to providing the information typical of a technical dictionary, the Renaissance Dictionary of Science and Technology (DICTER), available online (www.dicter.usal.es), offers many possibilities for research in the history of Spanish. This article analyses its contribution to the knowledge of historical morphology. To this end, based on the connection between lexicography, morphology and etymology in a historical dictionary such as the DICTER, morphological groups that result from word-forming processes are examined, members of lexical families are organized into morphological chains according to the kind of word they belong to, and these derivatives are related to the technical character or not of the resulting word in light of its presence in the texts of the dictionary corpus. It is concluded that the morphological process that takes place in a lexical unit can determine its consideration as a technical word and that the connections among the derivatives, offered in this dictionary in the lexical family section, are of interest for learning the state of the Spanish lexicon in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.