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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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Panini

Panini was a pioneering Indian linguist who lived around the mid-first millennium BCE. He developed the Ashtadhyayi, a c...

Indian Ancient Pioneering Sanskrit

9.2 Excellent

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Jonah ibn Janah

Jonah ibn Janah was an eleventh-century Spanish Jewish rabbi, physician, and Hebrew linguist who became a leading mediev...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 11TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was a pivotal figure in modern Persian scholarship. He meticulously compiled Loghat-nameh, a comprehe...

Modern Persian Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his Grand Dictionnaire universel. This encyclopedic...

French General Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Saadiah Gaon

Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882–942 CE), known as Saadiah Gaon, was a prominent Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exeget...

Medieval Biblical Jewish 10TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Frédéric Godefroy

Frédéric Godefroy was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and lexicographer born in 1826. He is best known for...

French 19TH Century Medieval Historical

9.1 Excellent

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David Kimhi

David Kimhi, also known by the acronym Radak, was a prominent medieval French-Provençal rabbi, grammarian, and biblical...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 12TH 13TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Rafael Bluteau

Rafael Bluteau was a French-born Portuguese lexicographer and Carthusian monk whose scholarly work bridged the 17th and...

Historical Portuguese Encyclopedic 17TH 18TH Century

8.9 Great

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Amarasimha

Amarasimha was an ancient Indian scholar renowned for compiling the Amarakosha, a foundational Sanskrit lexicon. This wo...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Thesaurus

8.8 Great

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E.A. Sophocles

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883) was a Greek-American classicist, professor, and lexicographer who taught A...

19TH Century Medieval Greek Bilingual

8.8 Great

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Yaska

Yaska was an influential Indian scholar active between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. He is primarily known for his work...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Etymological

8.7 Great

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Al-Jawhari

Al-Jawhari (c. 1185-1256) was an influential Arabic lexicographer originating from Farab. He is primarily recognized for...

Comprehensive Medieval Historical Arabic

8.7 Great

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Menahem ben Saruq

Menahem ben Saruq was a 10th-century Spanish-Jewish philologist and poet who served in the court of Hasdai ibn Shaprut i...

Medieval Hebrew 10TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.7 Great

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William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney was a nineteenth-century American linguist, Sanskrit scholar, and lexicographer whose work helped...

English Past Sanskrit Webster

8.5 Great

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Az-Zamakhshari

Abbas ibn Furrukh az-Zamakshari (c. 1185–1248) was a prominent Khwarezmian scholar and lexicographer. He is best known f...

Comprehensive Medieval Arabic Persian

8.5 Great

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Ibn Duraid

Ibn Duraid was an Arab lexicographer during the Abbasid period. He is primarily recognized for *Jamharat al-Lugha*, a su...

Comprehensive Medieval Historical Arabic

8.2 Great

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Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville was a 7th-century scholar and Archbishop of Seville in the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania. He is best...

Medieval Latin Ecclesiastical Encyclopedic

7.8 Good

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Johannes de Janua

Johannes de Janua, also known as John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus, was a Genoese Dominican friar and lexicographer of th...

Medieval Latin Encyclopedic Catholicon

7.3 Good

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Papias the Lombard

Papias the Lombard was an 11th-century Italian lexicographer and grammarian renowned for his significant contributions t...

Italian Medieval Latin Encyclopedic

7.2 Good