Lexicographical treatment of some forestry terms in De la siembra y plantios de arboles (1773) by Casimiro Gomez Ortega

The absence of comprehensive treatises on forestry in 18th century Spain was partly made up for by translations. The botanist Casimiro Gomez Ortega published in 1773 the translation of the work of the agronomist Duhamel du Monceau Des semis et plantations des bois (1760). In this article, we will study 19 specific terms to this discipline from a lexicographical point of view by comparing the definitions in different dictionaries and in the glossary included in the source work and in the translation. We will note that, despite the lack of published studies, a large part of them were already standardized in the dictionaries of the time.