CNRTL

CNRTL stands for Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, an online French linguistic resource platform. It is a multi-source portal that aggregates a wide range of lexical resources, dictionaries, and lexical data to support research, language study, and lexicography. The site is widely used by linguists, teachers, translators, and developers of language technology.

The CNRTL offers entries drawn from multiple dictionaries and lexical databases. Each lemma page typically provides the word’s definitions, etymology when available, usage examples, grammatical information, and links to related forms or senses. Many entries also include synonyms, antonyms, semantic fields, and cross-references to other lemmas. The resource emphasizes the interplay between form, meaning, and usage, and aims to present a nuanced view of how words behave in different contexts.

Access to CNRTL is free via its website, where users can search by word, browse lexical resources, and explore related data. The platform supports a range of activities, including linguistic research, language teaching, and advanced text analysis, and it is commonly cited in scholarly work and language reference materials. While primarily focused on French, CNRTL’s aggregated data contributes to broader lexicographic and computational linguistics efforts. The project continues to function as a centralized hub for textual and lexical resources in the French language.