DEX online — Romanian lexicographic database
Complete downloadable database of dictionary definitions, inflection paradigms and etymologies from over 30 reference dictionaries of Romanian, accompanied by a public REST API.
Before you use this resource
Definitions reflect dictionaries printed across different historical eras (from interwar editions to modern works); spelling rules and ideological notes from earlier eras are preserved verbatim as printed.
- Published by
- DEX online Association
- Source
- Community
- Collection
- Research & language
- Resource type
- Database
- Coverage
- Romanian language
- Documented formats
- SQL, JSON, HTML
- Licence / terms
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
- API access
- Documented API
- Record review date
- 2026-09-07
- Last resource update
- 2026-08-01
- Technical data audit
- Not performed
- Documentation
- Source reviewed
Documentation
Data dump downloads and public API documentation verified on dexonline.ro.
The cited page documents this record. Check the original source for terms and versions before reuse.
Getting started
- Download the SQL dump or aggregated JSON exports for offline linguistic research.
- Use the inflection table to lemmatize tokens and generate conjugation or declension forms.
- Query the REST API (`/api/v1/word/{cuvant}`) for lightweight real-time lookup.
Access and checks
- DEX online database download ↗ · SQL
Sample inspected on 2026-09-07 - DEX online API documentation ↗ · JSON
Sample inspected on 2026-09-07
Programmatic access: examples withdrawn
Direct query examples were withdrawn: the HTTP method, authentication and response parsing have not been validated together for this record. Consult the official documentation; this limitation does not establish that the resource has no API or exports.
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