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Cleland produced the dictionary as a partial translation of the French Dictionnaire d’Amour of 1741 by Jean-François Dreux du Radier, with additions of his own which comprise about a quarter of the entries, and about a fifth of the original content omitted. [1] [2]
The concept of the Ultralingua dictionary software began in 1996, when a small group of professors from Carleton College had the idea of creating a French dictionary that allowed the user to look up words on the fly with drag-and-drop technology, to and from a work in progress. The dictionary program was first developed for the Apple Macintosh ...
The French definite article derives from a Latin distal demonstrative, ille. [1] It evolved from the Old French article system, which shared resemblance to modern English and acquired the marking of generic nouns. [2] This practise was common by the 17th century, although it has been argued that this became widely used as early as in the 13th ...
Catholicon (from Greek Καθολικόν 'universal') is a 15th-century dictionary written in Breton, French, and Latin. It is the first Breton dictionary and also the first French dictionary. It contains six thousand entries and was compiled in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc . It was printed in 1499 in Tréguier.
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.
The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database.
Dictionnaires Le Robert (pronounced [diksjɔnɛːʁ lə ʁɔbɛʁ]) is a French publisher of dictionaries founded by Paul Robert. Its Petit Robert is often considered one of the authoritative single-volume dictionary of the French language. The founding members of the editorial board were the lexicographers, Alain Rey and Josette Rey-Debove.
lit. "beautiful gesture", a gracious gesture, noble in form but often futile or meaningless in substance. This French expression has been pressing at the door of standard English with only partial success, since the appearance of P. C. Wren's Beau Geste (1924), the first of his Foreign Legion novels. [3] Beau idéal