Croatian Encyclopedic Dictionary

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.^[2]

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 (1st edition in 1991, then two expanded editions in 1994 and 1998), Dictionary of Foreign Words by Vladimir Anić and Ivo Goldstein (1st edition in 1999, 2nd revised in 2000) and Croatian National Corpus.^[3]

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.

Croatian Encyclopedic Dictionary in its 2nd edition bears the ISBN 953-6045-28-1. The first volume has 83 introductory pages marked with Roman numerals. Last, 12th volume, contains supplements between pages 223. and 335. The last word in the dictionary is žvrljotina (scribble). The dictionary comes with a spelling manual prepared by Ljiljana Jojić and her associates; Ljiljana Čikota, Ivo Pranjković and Vesna Zečević. The dictionary has a total of 4,286 pages, which, together with the spelling manual, totals 4,474 pages.