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Charles du Fresne Du Cange, sieur , 1610-88, French medieval historian and philologist. He is principally known for his Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis [glossary of medieval and late Latin] (1678). It remains the greatest collection ever made of the forms of early medieval Latin and of the oldest Romance languages.

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Du Cange, Charles Dufresne (1610–88), French historian and philologist. His Glossarium and scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis (1678) remains the main complete dictionary of Late Latin. It was followed in 1688 by a similar work on Low Greek.

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