Antoine Thomas (linguist)

Antoine Thomas (29 November 1857, Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne – 17 May 1935) was a French linguist. He is best known for his work with Adolphe Hatzfeld and Arsène Darmesteter, on the Dictionnaire général de la langue française du commencement du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, which appeared in editions from 1864. He supplied etymological notes.

He took up an appointment at the Sorbonne in 1889, occupying the chair of Romance philology there for 44 years.

Publications

• Michel de Bouteauville et les premiers vers français mesurés, in: Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux, 1883