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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

9.5 Brilliant

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

9.4 Excellent

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

9.4 Excellent

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Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

9.3 Excellent

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Henry George Liddell

Henry George Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his extensive work in classical languages, particularly Greek. H...

Classical British Victorian Greek

9.2 Excellent

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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

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Robert Estienne

Robert Estienne was a prominent 16th-century French lexicographer renowned for his scholarly work. He produced the Thesa...

French Renaissance Latin Past

9.1 Excellent

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Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane was a 19th-century lexicographer renowned for his comprehensive Arabic-English Lexicon. Published be...

English Arabic Bilingual Past

9.1 Excellent

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Walter Skeat

Walter Skeat was a British lexicographer renowned for his meticulous study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon roots. His Ety...

British Victorian English Anglo Saxon

9.1 Excellent

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Egidio Forcellini

Egidio Forcellini (1728-1771) was an Italian lexicographer renowned for his *Totius Latinitatis Lexicon*. This comprehen...

Classical 18TH Century Italian Comprehensive

8.9 Great

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Charlton Lewis

Charlton Lewis was a prominent American lexicographer specializing in classical languages. His work significantly contri...

Classical American Victorian Latin

8.7 Great

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Charlton T. Lewis

Charlton Thomas Lewis was an American lexicographer who coedited the 1879 Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, responsible...

Classical English Latin Past

8.6 Great

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Wilhelm Freund

Wilhelm Freund was a German philologist whose 1834-1845 Latin-German dictionary helped form the basis of Lewis and Short...

German Classical Latin Past

7.9 Good

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Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot was an English humanist whose 1538 Latin-English wordbook, The Dictionary, is among the earliest major Engl...

English Latin Pioneering Bilingual

7.7 Good

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Thomas Cooper

Thomas Cooper was an English bishop and lexicographer whose Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae appeared in 1565 an...

Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.6 Good

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John Davies

John Davies of Mallwyd was a Welsh cleric and scholar whose 1632 Welsh-Latin and Latin-Welsh dictionary aided Renaissanc...

Welsh Latin Bilingual Past

7.5 Good

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Thomas Thomas

Thomas Thomas was Cambridge University's first printer and a lexicographer whose 1587 Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et An...

Classical British Latin Bilingual

7.2 Good

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Robert Ainsworth

Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) was an English schoolmaster and Latin lexicographer whose 1736 dictionary became a long-use...

Classical English Latin Past

7.1 Good

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Michael Chyet

Michael L. Chyet is an American linguist and Library of Congress cataloguer notable for his Kurdish-English Dictionary a...

American Bilingual Kurdish Current

6.9 Fair

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Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is a Mexican American essayist and lexicographer whose 2003 Spanglish book documented Spanish and English c...

American Contemporary Cultural Bilingual

6.8 Fair