© Author: University of the Balearic Islands
© Publisher: TERMCAT, Centre for Terminology, 2024
With the advice of: TERMCAT, Centre for Terminology

The roots of the Academic Dictionary of the University of the Balearic Islands (DA-UIB) go back to the UIB Dictionary, which was compiled in 2007 at the request of the UIB Executive Council. Between 2007 and this 2024 online version, new terms have been added to the dictionary, which now contains 404 entries in Catalan, alongside equivalent terms and definitions in Spanish and English.

The dictionary is a reference tool to strengthen the UIB’s institutional reputation in its internationalisation process.

The DA-UIB2024 aims to provide a practical tool for current and future members of the academic community. Its purpose is to ensure the UIB has a unified language blueprint in Catalan (the university’s preferred institutional language), as well as Spanish and English, given all three are working languages at the university. The DA-UIB is not just a mere glossary since it also contains trilingual definitions for all terms.

Our terms and names are selected and extracted from official documents such as the Official University Gazette (FOU), the Official State Gazette (BOE), royal decrees, university regulations, etc.

We have compared our terms with those found in dictionaries produced by the TERMCAT Terminology Centre, via Cercaterm, including the University Management Classification of Names from the Vives Network of Universities (XVU), with a view to ensuring there are no contradictions, differences or redundancies. However, where this is unavoidable, we have included explanatory notes.

This dictionary supplements other published works in the field.

Equivalent English terms are provided as approximations to the Catalan original, since academic structures in Anglophone countries do not fully align with those in Spain. In this sense, our collaboration with the XVU Terminology and Nomenclature Working Group is invaluable.

Finally, the DA-UIB is constantly being updated with terms from the FOU, regulations, acts, rules of procedure, etc.

Clicking on “Consulta de termes” (‘Term search’), you can have access to terms in three ways: using the alphabetical indexes (there is a different index for each language of the dictionary); using the telematic index in Catalan, or making simple or advanced searches directly in the upper space “Text de la consulta” (‘Text search’) in any of the dictionary languages.

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Universitat de les Illes Balears. Diccionari acadèmic de la Universitat de les Illes Balears [en línia]. Barcelona: TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia, cop. 2024.
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