Svenska Akademiens ordbok

The Svenska Akademiens ordbok ( SAOB ) språket with original title ordbok öfver svenska, is the multi-volume Dictionary of the Swedish Academy and is one of the primary missions in April 1786 by King Gustav III. based on the French model academy. After several failed attempts in the 19th century began in 1893 on the Lexin work according to a plan, which is essentially valid today.

The Lexin has the same objective, such as the German dictionary for the German or the Oxford English Dictionary for English, namely the scientific documentation of the historical and recent vocabulary into the meaningful historical principles for the Swedish language. Thus, all words and meanings of the Swedish are recorded, which from 1521 ( the year in which the later to become King Gustav I. Wasa Imperial Council was ) can also be assigned to the presence of the respective dictionary tape. The development of the dictionary is not yet complete. 2012 appeared the latest far belt 36, so that the processing is advanced to and with utsudda. It is expected that the completion of the entire work in the year 2017.

The editorial office is located at Språkdata, a Department of Applied Linguistics at the Institute of the Swedish language at the University of Gothenburg. Since 1997, the contents of the SAOB is available for free on the Internet.

The Lexin is next to the Svenskt biografiskt encyclopedia the largest reference work in Scandinavia. It is not to be confused with the single-volume also published by the Swedish Academy, for questions of spelling designed and published already in numerous editions Handwörterbuch Svenska Akademiens ordlista ( SAOL ).