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L. Marcel Devic

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Notable figure 1832–1888 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 200; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 567 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Devic, L.-Marcel (1832-1888)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; French words of Oriental origin (1876)

Biography

He taught at the Faculty of Letters in Montpellier. He translated the shorter Romance of ʿAntar into French (Paris 1864), compiled the Dictionnaire étymologique des mots français d'origine orientale as a supplement to Littré's dictionary (1876), and published Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's ʿAjaʾib al-Hind with a translation (Leiden 1883–1886).