Firmin Le Ver
Firmin Le Ver (born roughly 1370–1375; died 1444) was a French Carthusian monk, scholar, and dictionary maker. In Latin he is known as Firminus Verris. He served as the prior of the Saint-Honoré Carthusian monastery in Thuison, near Abbeville.
From 1420 to 1440, he wrote a Latin-French dictionary for use in his monastery—the earliest known dictionary of its kind by a single author. It contains more than 45,000 entries explained in both Latin and French. In total, the dictionary consists of about 540,000 words, with roughly one-sixth being French.
Le Ver died in Abbeville in 1444. The manuscript is kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was described in 1868, but was not published scientifically until 1994.
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