Jean Nicot (1606)
  THRESOR DE LA LANGUE FRANCOYSE
  Headword Search Form


Simple Headword Search

Enter a word, lower case, no accents, and "Submit Query". This is simply a fast look-up in an article headword index using either an exact match (default) or a full substring search (click on box "Floating Search") where all substrings will match, so that fleur will find all words containing this string, such as Effleurer and Fleurissant.

Headword: (ex. fleur -- do not use accents)

Search Options: Floating Search

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Please report difficulties and bugs to Mark Olsen of the ARTFL Project, mark@gide.uchicago.edu.

Fun with Nicot; try searches on:

Accent Representation

The current search mechanism does not distinguish accented characters. To find où , search for ou (omit accent).

"Floating Search" and Pattern Matching

The "Floating Search" option allows users to search for all words containing a particular string of letters. For example, searching for fleur with the "Floating Search" option activated will find defleurer and effleurer as well as fleur .

Pattern matching allows more precise specification of a large number of words corresponding to a defined pattern. The search term fem.* will result in all of the words, in either a wordlist or as a search query, which begin with fem , for example, femelle and femmelette . Similarly, the expression c.*ion specifies all words beginning with c and ending in ion , for example camion and caution . Variation of spellings in the Nicot Thresor makes pattern matching very useful.

The most commonly used regular expression operators used searches are: 

. (period)               -- matches any single character;
.* (period asterisk)     -- matches any string of characters;
[a-z]  			 -- matches a single character found in the specified range;

Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago: mark@gide.uchicago.edu