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Émile Littré Émile Maximilien Paul Littré (; 1 February 18012 June 1881) was a French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher, best known for his , commonly called . Biography Littré was born in Paris. His father, Michel-François Littré, had been a gu ...

, commonly called simply the "''Littré''", is a four-volume

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...

of the

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

published in Paris by Hachette. The dictionary was originally issued in 30 parts, 1863–72; a second edition is dated 1872–77. A further edition is reported in 1877, published by Hachette. Versions of ''Littré'' dictionary content that are searchable online (specifically, not of the type intended for download to physical devices) are available both on a site named after the dictionary's creator and on a site named after the dictionary's creator.

and on a multifaceted site including among its diverse resources its own adaptation

of the dictionary. The

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

's on-line integrated catalogue describes the contents as: ''1o Pour la nomenclature''...: ''2o Pour la grammaire''...: 3o ''Pour la signification des mots''...: 4o ''Pour la partie historique''...: 5o ''Pour l’étymologie''..''

OED The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...

'' – Wikipedia article on the Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 2024-03-10.

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