Antoine Thomas (linguist)

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Antoine Thomas (Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne, 1857-1935) 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^[1].

He took up an appointment at the Sorbonne in 1889, occupying the chair of Romance philology there for 44 years.^[2]