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Carl Darling Buck

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Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology at the University of Chicago. His 1949 work A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages systematically compared synonym fields across Indo-European and several other language families, organizing entries by semantic categories such as the physical world and mental faculties. The reference remains cited in historical linguistics and Indo-European studies. Buck also published on Greek dialects and contributed to the University of Chicago faculty for over four decades.

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Carl Darling Buck ranks #34 of 419 in the Lexicographer ranking, behind Walter Skeat, ahead of Nicolò Tommaseo.

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Carl Darling Buck scores 9.04/10 (Excellent) on Lunoo, making it one of the highest-rated options in the Lexicographer category. Produced a landmark comparative Indo-European thesaurus that remains widely cited for semantic history, typology, and extraordinary scholarly scope.

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