Finding French Dictionaries, etc.
Subject Heading searches work effectively for locating dictionaries, grammars, and thesauri. For best results, enter the following headings in the Library Catalog as Subject Heading searches.
- For French Language Dictionaries:
Search french language > dictionaries - For Bilingual dictionaries (french/english):
Search french language > dictionaries > english - For French Language Outside France:
Search, e.g., french language > canada > dictionaries - For Etymological Dictionaries:
Search french language > etymology > dictionaries - For Dialect Dictionaries:
Search french language > dialects > dictionaries - For French Grammars:
Search french language > grammar - For Verb Conjugations:
Search french language > verb > tables
Grammar & Conjugation
- La grammaire d'aujourdʾhui guide alphabétique de linguistique française byPublication Date: 1986Print.
French Language Dictionaries (Modern)
A wide range of French and French-English dictionaries is shelved in Olin Library:
- Le Robert & Collins dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-françaisEnglish title: Collins Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary, Unabridged.
Print. - Dictionnaire étymologique byPrint.
- Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française , 10. éd. byPublication Date: [1949], c1938.Print.
- Le nouveau petit Robert dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue françaiseNouv. éd., remaniée et amplifiée / sous la direction de Josette Rey-Debove et Alain Rey.
Print. - Encyclopédie du bon français dans l'usage contemporain difficultés, subtilités, complexités, singularités byPublication Date: 1972Print.
- The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English DictionaryPublication Date: 1996[French text ... edited by Geneviève Lebaut ; English text edited by Michael Clark and Bernadette Mohan ; illustrations by Jochen Schmidt.
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French Language Dictionaries (Historical)
- Dictionnaire du français classique byCall Number: Olin Library stacks, PC2650 .D812 1988
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française8th and 9th editions. Print edition housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. See the library catalog record, for the print edition to Request for Reading Room Access.
- Dictionnaires d'autrefoisFrench Dictionaries from the 17th - 20th centuries, including several Dictionnaires de l'Académie française along with the Estienne, Nicot, Bayle, Moréri, Féraud, and Littré. (via ARTFL)
- Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française, et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle byPublication Date: 1881-1902Composé d'après le dépouillement de tous les plus importants documents, manuscrits ou imprimés, qui se trouvent dans les grandes bibliothèques de la France et de l'Europe, et dans les principales archives départementales, municipales, hospitalières ou privées. Print.
- Thresor de la langve francoise, tant ancienne qve moderne Av qvel entre avtres choses sont les mots propres de marine, venerie, & faulconnerie byPublication Date: 1960A facsimile of the of the 1606 edition published by D. Douceure.
A copy of the original is kept in Kroch Library's Dept. of Rare Books. See catalog record for Rare edition to Request for Reading Room Delivery.