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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a prominent scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He is best known for his meticulous work compiling...

Ancient Chinese Past Characters

9.4 Excellent

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Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

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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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium was a lexicographer living in Alexandria during the Hellenistic period. He significantly contr...

Classical Ancient Greek Past

9.0 Excellent

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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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Ambrogio Calepino

Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440-1510) was an Italian Augustinian lexicographer whose Latin dictionary first appeared at Reggi...

Multilingual Renaissance Latin Past

8.3 Great

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Hesychius of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian whose 5th or 6th century lexicon preserves more than 50,000 rare Greek wo...

Ancient Greek Lexicon Past

8.2 Great

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Adolf Erman

Adolf Erman was a German Egyptologist who launched the Berlin Dictionary project in 1897 and co-edited the Wörterbuch de...

Ancient Lexicon Egyptian Past

8.0 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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Julius Pollux

Julius Pollux was a 2nd-century Greek rhetorician whose *Onomasticon* served as a crucial thesaurus of Attic Greek vocab...

Ancient Greek Past Thesaurus

7.8 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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Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th century whose encyclopedic work, *De compendiosa doctrina*, preserved...

Ancient Lexicon Latin Past

7.5 Good

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Sextus Pompeius Festus was a Roman grammarian whose abridgment of Verrius Flaccus preserved rare Latin words and antiqua...

Ancient Latin Past Etymology

7.4 Good

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Johannes Balbus

Johannes Balbus was a Dominican of Genoa who finished the Latin Catholicon in 1286, a medieval grammar and dictionary la...

Medieval Latin Past Catholicon

7.3 Good

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Grzegorz Knapski

Grzegorz Knapski was a Polish Jesuit lexicographer whose Thesaurus Polono-Latino-Graecus, first printed in Kraków in 162...

Polish Latin Past Thesaurus

7.3 Good

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Konstantinas Sirvydas

Konstantinas Sirvydas was a Lithuanian Jesuit and lexicographer whose 17th-century trilingual dictionary helped develop...

Polish Latin Past Lithuanian

7.3 Good

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Philitas of Cos

Philitas of Cos was an ancient Greek scholar and poet whose lost work, *Ataktoi glōssai*, is widely considered to be the...

Ancient Greek Past Glossary

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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Henry Cockeram

Henry Cockeram was an English lexicographer whose 1623 English Dictionarie was the third known English dictionary and th...

English Latin Past Hard Words

7.1 Good

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Elisha Coles

Elisha Coles was a 17th-century English lexicographer and stenographer whose 1676 English Dictionary included dialect wo...

English Latin Past 17C

7.1 Good