World Languages: Italian

Authoritative and completely up to date, this second edition of the Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary contains over 85,000 words and phrases and 120,000 translations. Now with a completely new design and layout, it also includes over 2,000 new words in Italian and English. In addition, it offers straightforward guidance on usage and grammar, verb tables, and a glossary of grammatical terms.Lively and informative, the dictionary now has a brand-new supplement on life and culture in the Italian-speaking world, and a correspondence guide, making it the perfect reference for students and adult learners needing an affordable, portable dictionary. This new edition replaces ISBN 0-19-860282-0.

This title takes its dignified place in the Cassell series, that fountainhead and model of "modern lexicography," according to Le Lingue del Mondo. This dictionary is designed as a mirror of Italian life but includes obsolete words and phrases recurrent in the works of classic Italian writers for the benefit of readers and students of Italian literature.