Dixit - Romanian Definitions Dictionary
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Dixit is a cross-platform application for consulting off-line a Romanian definitions dictionary (DEX). It features a browser-like interface, with cross-references between definitions, and the capability of adding new definitions from a server. The definitions are provided by the DEX online project. Dixit can be used under MS Windows or under GNU/Linux.
The database contains more than 245,000 definitions from various sources. The most important source is The Definitions Dictionary of the Romanian Language (DEX 1998). All the 65,542 definitions from DEX were added to the database by volunteers of the DEX online project.
The following Romanian dictionaries are also complete, thanks to the Romanian company Siveco and the publishing house Litera Internaţional: Thesaurus (2001), Antonyms (2002), Orthographic Dictionary (2002), The New Definitions Dictionary of the Romanian Language (2002).
The latest version is 1.0.1, released on August 23, 2004. Download from here.
Follow the instructions for downloading, installing, and using Dixit.
Dixit © 2004 Octavian Procopiuc (oprocopiuc at sourceforge.net)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
The Definitions © 2004 DEX online (coordonated by Cătălin Frâncu).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the definitions
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
Dixit is written in C++ using the non-commercial version of the QT library.
More programming details can be found on the project page.
This project is hosted by SourceForge.
The background image was created by Travis Beckham.
The name of the program is an acronym for dicţionar explicativ integrat, which is Romanian for "integrated definitions dictionary". However, the true origin is the latin phrase Ipse Dixit, which emphasizes that an assertion comes from some authority. For the program, it's a good subliminal message ;).