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Pierre Danet

1650 – 1709

French linguist

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Lived 1650 – 1709 (aged 58–59). Pierre Danet was a French linguist, romanist, hellenist, latinist, lexicographer and theologian.

Pierre Danet. Grand Dictionnaire François et Latin. Lyon: Freres Deville, 1728. Pierre Danet (1650 in Paris – 1709) was a French cleric, Latinist, Hellenist, Romanist and lexicographer.

In 1668, Danet was appointed in the editorial team of expenditure ad usum Delphini by Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duke of Montausier (1610-1690), the tutor of Louis, Grand Dauphin

In 1673, he became Magister Petrus Daneticus academicus, and from 1677 Petrus Danetius Academicus, abbas Sancti Nicolai Virdunensis (abbot of Saint-Nicolas in Verdun).

In the 18th century, Pierre Danet's dictionary experienced numerous editions and adaptations and served as the basis for multiple dictionaries with European languages.

Works Dictionarium novum latinum et gallicum, Paris 1673, 1680; Magnum Dictionarium latino-gallicum, Paris 1691, 1696, 1704, Lyon 1708, 1712, 1726, 1739, Amsterdam 1711 Nouveau Dictionnaire françois et latin, enrichi des meilleures façons de parler en l'une et l'autre langue, composé par l'ordre du Roy pour Monseigneur le Dauphin, Paris 1683, 1687, 1700, 1707; Grand dictionnaire français et latin, Amsterdam 1710, Lyon 1713, 1721, 1735, 1737, Toulouse 1731, 1754, Paris 1972 Radices seu dictionarium linguae latinae in quo singulae voces suis radicibus subjiciuntur, Paris 1677 Dictionarium antiquitatum romanarum et graecarum, Paris 1698, Amsterdam 1701

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1650, Paris
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Died
1709
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French linguist

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Pierre Danet was born in 1650 in Paris.

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Pierre Danet died in 1709.

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Pierre Danet was a linguist, romanist, hellenist, latinist, lexicographer and theologian.

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· Wikidata: Q3384619

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