French Language Resources
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Harvard
University Lamont Library's: "Great Links on the Web: Languages
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French/English
Dictionary
A
very rapid online dictionary without all the annoying pop-up ads.
Gives the user the option to download. Also includes terminology
databases and subject glossaries.
Dictionnaire de la langue française du seizième siècle, Edmond Huguet
Offers more than 100,000 entries, describing the near totality
known words during the French Renaissance. To constitute the dictionary,
Huguet traced the origin of words to the 15th century, using, among
other, Godefroy's "Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française" as a
reference. He further expanded coverage into the early 17th century, in
order to provide an understanding of the development and history of 16th
century French language. The dictionary provides dates of first
appearance and examples for the new words originating in Latin and
Italian that had an immense success during the 16th century and found
their way into the spoken language. Each entry describes orthographical
spellings of words over the centuries and provides a translation into
modern French.
Dictionnaires des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Provides
unified access to the "Dictionnaire françois-latin" by Robert Estienne
(1503?-1559); the "Thresor de la langue francoyse, tant ancienne que
moderne" by Jean Nicot (1530-1604); the "Dictionarie of the french and
english tongues" by Randle Cotgrave (d. 1634?); the "Origines de la
langue françoise" and the "Dictionaire etymologique, ov origines de la
langue françoise" by Gilles Ménage (1613-1692); the "Dictionnaire
françois" by Pierre Richelet (1626-1698); the "Dictionnaire universel"
and the "Essais d’un dictionnaire universel" by Antoine Furetière
(1619-1688); and the "Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences" by Thomas
Corneille (1625-1709).
Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française, et de tous ses dialectes du
IXe au XVe siècle
Contains over 160,000 entries covering medieval French,
describing words that modern French did not preserve, as well as those
that are still in use, but whose meaning has changed in time.
Accumulating examples from manuscripts and printed sources, Godefroy
traces the history of words in the spoken language, the various popular
idioms, dialects, as well as of names of people and places. Entries
describe various orthographical spellings and include quotations from
texts taken from the 11th to the 13th centuries, with translations into
modern French, as well as bibliographical references.
Orthonet
Orthographic resource for French.
For multi-language dictionaries, click here.
Translators
WordReference.com
Highlight
a word on a webpage and have it translated into English, Spanish,
German, Italian or French. There is an online dictionary for these
languages as well. Auto-translation for Windows users only.
Altavista
Babel Fish Translator
Translate
texts or whole web pages from this website.
Dictionary.com
A
translating tool provided by Systran.
Globegate
Project: French Grammar Central
Has hundreds of links to grammar resources online.
Learn French
Simple site with basic information about the French language.
Verbix
On-line verb conjugator.
Lingo24.
Site includes a free online French language paraphrasing tool which allows to find alternative expressions for words and phrases in French; online translation tool which allows to search for real-world translations of a word or phrase between French and English., French and German. and more.
Last updated on March 18, 2008