Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language.
The
Publication
A special Commission (Commission du dictionnaire) composed of several (but not all) of the members of the Académie undertakes the compilation of the dictionary. It has published thirteen editions of the dictionary, of which three were preliminary, eight were complete, and two were supplements for specialised words.[2] The completed edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the first official dictionary of the French language, was presented upon completion by the Académie to King Louis XIV. [3] on 24 August 1694.
Preliminary editions:
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (from A to Aversion), pre-edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1687
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (from A to Confiture), pre-edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1687
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (from A to Neuf), pre-edition, Paris, 1687
Complete editions:
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy (1st edition), Paris, 1694
- Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy (2nd edition), Paris, 1718
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (3rd edition), Paris, 1740
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (4th edition), Paris, 1762
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (5th edition), Paris, 1798
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (6th edition), Paris, 1835
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (7th edition), Paris, 1879
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (8th edition), Paris, 1932–1935
Supplementary editions for the sciences, arts, and technology:
- Corneille, Thomas, Le Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences, Paris, 1694
- Barré, Louis, Complément du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, Paris, 1842
In 1778, the Académie attempted to compile a "historical dictionary" of the French language. The project was later abandoned, having failed to progress beyond the letter "A".
The 8th edition of 1935 contained approximately 35,000 words. The Académie continues work on the ninth edition, begun in 1986, of which the first volume (A to Enzyme) was published in 1992 () are more commonly used as everyday reference sources than that of the Académie.
Encoding
The IETF language tags have registered fr-1694acad
for Early Modern French, "17th century French, as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise", 4eme ed. 1694; frequently includes elements of Middle French, as this is a transitional period".[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Outil de consultation du Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française - 9e édition (de A à Sérénissime)" [Lookup tool for the Dictionary of the French Academy, 9th edition (from A to Sérénissime)]. academie.atilf.fr (in French). Retrieved 10 September 2022.
en cours de rédaction (work in progress)
- ^ "Dictionaries of the Académie française (17th to 20th century)". Classiques Garnier. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ Guillaume Massieu, Oeuvres de Mr de Tourreil (Brunet, 1721) Vol. I, pp. ix–x.
- ^ "IETF Language Subtag Registry". IANA. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
External links
Searchable original texts
- University of Chicago, The ARTFL Project, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, Full text, searchable French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Includes: Dictionnaire de L'Académie française: 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932–5) editions; Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787–1788), and Émile Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872–1877)
- Académie française, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 4th edition online, official site
- Académie française, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 8th edition online, official site
- Académie française, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 9th edition online, official site, work-in-progress with regular updates
Facsimile reproductions
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France:
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy, 1st edition (1694), vol. 1, vol. 2
- Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy, 2nd edition (1718), vol.
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 3rd edition (1740), vol. 1, vol .2
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 4th edition (1762), vol. 1, vol. 2
- Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 5th edition (1798), vol. 1, vol. 2
- Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, 6th edition (1835), vol. 1, vol. 2
- Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, 7th edition (1878), vol. 1, vol. 2