Ap Geiriaduron

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The Ap Geiriaduron contains the Cysgair general dictionary, as well as the standardized terminology dictionaries for schools and further education colleges in Wales, Y Termiadur Addysg, and for Universities in Wales, Geiriadur Termau’r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. All these dictionaries provide English-Welsh/Welsh-English entries and can be used offline where there is no internet connection.

Features:

  • Realtime, responsive and adaptive searching
  • Offline dictionary for anytime searches
  • Universal Application (iPad and iPhone) with Retina Display Graphics
  • English and Welsh user interface languages, with the ability to change language in Settings
  • Demutates and deconjugates Welsh words to show their original form.
  • ‘Drill down’ feature to find more detailed information on specific words
  • Wildcard Welsh searches; e.g. use it as a rhyming dictionary by searching for ‘*aith’ to find all words ending in ‘aith’
  • Contains the Cysgair Dictionary, an easy to use descriptive dictionary with over 25,000 Welsh and 25,000 English words
  • Contains ‘Y Termiadur Addysg‘ dictionary; funded by the Welsh Government as the dictionary of standardized terminology for schools and further education
  • Contains the Geiriadur Termau’r Coleg Cymraeg; containing definitions, images and diagrams; funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol as the dictionary of standardized terminology for Welsh-medium higher education
  • Provides a gateway to the National Terminology Portal at termau.cymru for expanded searches
  • Automatic updating of dictionaries as new words, terms and dictionaries are added

The Ap Geiriaduron is a Bangor University application, part-funded by a Go Wales graduate scheme. Adaptations were funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol’s small grants scheme in order to be able to include the definitions, images and diagrams in their dictionary.

Developers:
Patrick Robertson, David Chan, Dewi Bryn Jones.

Editors/Terminologists:
Delyth Prys, Gruffudd Prys, Tegau Andrews