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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