The Onomasiological Dictionary of the Romance Languages is designed as a contribution to a
comparative description of the major Romance tongues. Grouping the vocabulary of these
languages on the basis of a number of selected notional fields the description proceeds from a
'noemic' (conceptual) system in each case serving as a tertium comparationis to which the
lexical realisations in the vocabularies of the Romance languages are then related. This
dictionary thus fills a gap in the field of Romance lexicography. Proceeding from a number of
different noemic systems the work is also innovative from the methodological point of view.
The series has been discontinued with the publication of volume 6.
