Croatian Encyclopedic Dictionary
Croatian Encyclopedic Dictionary is a dictionary of Croatian published in 2002 as one-volume edition by Novi Liber. Second edition of the dictionary in twelve volumes was published in 2004 by the Novi Liber and Hanza Media. Chief editors of the dictionary are Ljiljana Jojić and Ranko Matasović, while the authors are Vladimir Anić, Dunja Brozović-Rončević, Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein and Ivo Pranjković. In addition, there are twenty-three associates.
Description
The dictionary contains 175,000 processed terms of which 47,000 are Croatian names, family names and places of their distribution, and 18,000 processed names in geography, history, mythology and general culture.A group of authors and assistants worked on the preparation of the Dictionary from 1999 until 2002. Their main source materials were Vladimir Anić's Croatian Dictionary, Dictionary of Foreign Words by Vladimir Anić and Ivo Goldstein and Croatian National Corpus.
The concept of the Dictionary is highly descriptive because authors aim was to collect and lexicographically process contemporary Croatian, and not to rewrite what words should be considered as standard. However, prescriptive elements cannot be completely avoided in any dictionary.