swap_horiz Antônio de Morais Silva Alternatives

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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

2

Antonio de Nebrija

Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist and scholar associated with the University of Salamanc...

Spanish Historical Bilingual 15TH 16TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

3

Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm was a prominent German lexicographer and philologist. He is best known for his extensive work on the Deutsch...

German Historical Past Grimm

9.5 Brilliant

4

Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.5 Brilliant

5

Al-Zabidi

Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi was an 18th-century Arab lexicographer and scholar best known for compiling the "Taj al-Arus,...

Classical 18TH Century Historical Arabic

9.5 Brilliant

6

Duan Yucai

Duan Yucai was an 18th-century Chinese philologist of the Qing Dynasty whose work significantly advanced the study of hi...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

7

Mikhail Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (1886–1962), known in Russian as Mikhail Vasmer, was a linguist and Slavist born in Saint Pe...

20TH Century Historical Slavic Russian German

9.5 Brilliant

8

Walter William Skeat

Walter William Skeat (1835–1912) was a prominent English philologist who served as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor...

Historical British 19TH 20TH Century Philological

9.4 Excellent

9

Salvatore Battaglia

Salvatore Battaglia was an Italian academic and lexicographer best known for editing the Grande dizionario della lingua...

Italian 20TH Century Multi Volume Historical

9.3 Excellent

10

Charles du Fresne du Cange

Charles du Fresne du Cange (1610-1688) was a French lexicographer renowned for his *Glossarium Medii et Infantium*. This...

French Medieval Historical 17TH Century

9.2 Excellent

11

Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm was a 19th-century German lexicographer instrumental in establishing modern German dictionaries. He collab...

German 19TH Century Historical Pioneering

9.2 Excellent

12

Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

13

Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ire...

19TH Century Historical British Ecclesiastical

9.2 Excellent

14

Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries was a 20th-century Dutch linguist renowned for his authoritative etymological dictionaries of Old Norse and...

20TH Century Historical Dutch Germanic Etymological

9.2 Excellent

15

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira was a prominent Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, and translator. He is best kno...

20TH Century General Monolingual Brazilian Portuguese

9.1 Excellent

16

Rafael Bluteau

Rafael Bluteau was a French-born Portuguese lexicographer and Carthusian monk whose scholarly work bridged the 17th and...

Historical Portuguese Encyclopedic 17TH 18TH Century

8.9 Great

17

José Pedro Machado

José Pedro Machado was a 20th-century Portuguese lexicographer, historian, and Arabist whose scholarly work significantl...

20TH Century Historical Portuguese Etymological

8.4 Great

18

Cândido de Figueiredo

Cândido de Figueiredo (1846-1925) was a Portuguese philologist, grammarian, writer, and lexicographer. His principal ref...

Historical Portuguese 19TH 20TH Century Monolingual

8.2 Great

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Heinrich Campe

Joachim Heinrich Campe was a German educator, writer, publisher, and lexicographer associated with the Enlightenment. Hi...

German Historical Normative Purism

7.9 Good

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Johann Heinrich Campe

Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818), also known in some references as Johann Heinrich Campe, was a German educator, write...

German Purism 18TH 19TH Century Monolingual

7.8 Good