Dictionnaire vs AiDurendal

A go-to reference among French dictionaries: the TLFi. All you need is an internet connection to look up a word's definition, etymology, synonyms, antonyms, and morphology, or a verb's conjugation. The Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi) is the digitized version of a sixteen-volume dictionary, with 270,000 definitions and 430,000 examples drawn from French literature. It's a resource as valuable to students and translators as to anyone simply curious about words. The TLFi also integrates with your system: look up a word with Spotlight, or check its definition from any app by selecting it and tapping "Share…". Add a Home Screen widget that shows your favorites or recently looked-up words, and touch and hold the app icon to start a search or jump straight to your favorites and history.

AiDurendal is a software to consult a AiDurendal dictionary. This type of dictionary is composed with the page images of the original dictionary and every page image is linked with the first headword of the page. With this simple system, AiDurendal searches the page image which must contain the word you input. For exemple If the first headword of the first page is "A" et that of the second page is "abandon", "abaisser" must be found a the first page, as long as the word exists in the dictionary. Be careful, to use AiDurendal, you have to download dictionaries at http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~ogurisu/AiSeries.html Unfortunately all the dictionaries which are available on this page concern Old French or Old Occitan. But you can make by youself an AiDurendal dictionary. AiDurendal dictionary contains only page images and two plain text files. If you examine carefully them, you can easily understand the structure of the AiDurendal dictionary. To do so, we recommend you to download GdfLex.