dict.cc
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| Type | GmbH[1] |
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| Founded | 6 November 2002 |
| Headquarters | Austria |
| Founder(s) | Paul Hemetsberger |
| Employees | 2 |
| Website | dict.cc |
| Type of site | Online dictionaries |
| Advertising | Google AdSense, image banners & buttons |
| Registration | optional, free |
| Available in | several languages, see below |
| Launched | 6 November 2002 |
| Current status | active |
dict.cc is a free, multilingual online dictionary. The site's database can also be downloaded and used offline. It has mobile apps for Apple iOS, Android[2][3] and Palm OS.
History
Having had an idea for a project called 'Knowhowbase' in 2001,[4] Austrian web developer Paul Hemetsberger decided to move from creating an online encyclopedia into the online translation market, going online on 6 November 2002.[5] It moved on to its own dedicated server in 2003.[6]
The popular user contribution feature was added in January 2004, which allowed users to add translations of words that were not yet in the database.[7] These then had to be verified by 5 users.[8] Within five months, over 10,000 contributions had been made by users.[9]
In beginning of February 2005 Paul Hemetsberger ceased to offer the wordlists under the terms of the free GNU General Public License (GPL). Later that year he published them again under a proprietary license.[10][11]
Languages
dict.cc translates between several language pairs, each run on their own subdomain based on the ISO 639-1 system. For example, the Spanish-English translation system exists as enes.dict.cc. The one exception to this rule is the German-English dictionary, which runs on the default dict.cc domain.[12]
The languages dict.cc currently translates are English and German to:[13]
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Danish
- Czech
- Croatian
- Swedish
- Italian
- Albanian
- Icelandic
- Serbian
- Greek
- Finnish
- Romanian
- Norwegian
- Bosnian
- Esperanto
- Polish
- Slovak
- Russian
- Portuguese
- Turkish
- Latin
- Bulgarian
References
- ↑ dict.cc contact information
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ dict.cc about page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ dict.cc history page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ dict.cc history page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ dict.cc history page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ dict.cc history page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ dict.cc history page. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ download offer of the wordlists with 211,048 translations under the terms of the GPL on 7th of December 2004
- ↑ new download offer of the wordlists with 212,693 translations under the terms of a proprietary, non-free license
- ↑ dict.cc homepage. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ browse.dict.cc Retrieved 19 December 2012.
