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French and Francophone Studies: Linguistics

Welcome to the French Linguistics Guide!

French Linguistic Corpuses

Regional French Dictionaries

French Dictionaries

French-English Dictionaries

Colins French-English Dictionary Online--a standard French-English dictionary.

~To find more French/English dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French Language Dictionaries English and searching by SUBJECT.

Monolingual Dictionaries

Dictionnaires Larousse en ligne --provides French language dictionaries for synonyms & antonyms, expressions, homonyms, quotes, and verb conjugations.

~To find more French dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French Language Dictionaries and searching by SUBJECT.

Historical Dictionaries

Grand Corpus des dictionnaires [9e-20e s.]

• Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle
• La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage français depuis son origine jusqu'au siècle de Louis XIV
• Edmond Huguet, Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle
• Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e siècles
• Corpus des dictionnaires de l'Académie française [du 17e au 20e siècle]

Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française--a four-volume dictionary of the 19th century

Le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi)--a free online dictionary of 19th- and 20th-century.

Etymological Dictionaries

~To find more French etymological dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French language - Etymology - Dictionaries and searching by SUBJECT.