Stchoupak, Nitti & Renou, Dictionnaire Sanskrit-Français (STC)
STC is the Dictionnaire Sanskrit-Français (1932) of Nadine Stchoupak, Luigia Nitti,
and Louis Renou — the standard French Sanskrit dictionary, published by the Institut de
Civilisation Indienne in Paris. Its preface notes it filled a real gap: until then
French students had only Burnouf & Leupol's slim 1866 Dictionnaire classique, while the
strong dictionaries were all in English and German. Glosses are in French.
At a glance
| Code | STC (GitHub repo STC) |
| Full title | Dictionnaire Sanskrit-Français |
| Authors | N. Stchoupak, L. Nitti, L. Renou |
| Year / size | 1932 · ~904 pages |
| Direction | Sanskrit → French |
| Accents | No |
| Source | csl-orig/v02/stc/ |
| Open | List · Advanced · Mobile |
| Data | Page scans |
| csl-doc | stc.rst (front matter) |
Unlike most CDSL dictionaries, STC is not offered in the Basic display and has no
downloadable data file. Use the List or Advanced display, or read the page scans.
Its French abbreviations have their own key (csl-orig/v02/stc/abbrev/).
When to use it
Reach for STC for precise French glosses from first-rate scholars — Louis Renou is among
the foremost 20th-century indologists. It complements:
- Monier-Williams (MW) — the broad English reference.
- Böhtlingk-Roth (PWG) — the deepest German treatment.
Looking up a word
Open the List or Advanced display (there is no Basic display for STC), pick your
input/output transliteration (see Encoding & Transliteration),
and type the headword; Advanced also searches inside entries. See
Search & Display.
Reading an entry
STC sets headwords and Sanskrit in {@…@} (bold, in IAST, with hyphens marking the stem and
affixes), italic cues in {%…%}, and tags abbreviations with <ab>; the glosses are plain
French. The entry a-ṛṇin- "free from debts" (csl-orig/v02/stc/stc.txt) — the same word the
Apte (AP90) page reads in English:
<L>3<pc>1,1<k1>afRin<k2>a-fRin
{@a-ṛṇin-@}¦ ({%a%} pour {%an%}) <ab>a.</ab> libre de dettes.
| In the source | Meaning |
|---|---|
<pc>1,1 | page-column reference (p. 1, col. 1) |
{@a-ṛṇin-@} | the headword, IAST — the trailing hyphen marks it as a stem (search key <k1> is SLP1) |
({%a%} pour {%an%}) | a note: the prefix is a- (here) but an- before a vowel |
<ab>a.</ab> | the grammatical label — adjectif |
libre de dettes | the French gloss ("free from debts") |
See Data Formats for the markup reference.
What makes it distinctive
- The standard French Sanskrit dictionary. By Stchoupak, Nitti, and Renou (1932) — the reference for French-speaking readers, and valued for Renou's precision.
- French glosses, terse and scholarly.
- Accessed differently. No Basic display and no bulk download — List/Advanced displays and page scans only.
Headword key conventions
<k1> = SLP1 (search key, no hyphen); <k2> = SLP1 with hyphens marking the morphological segmentation (e.g. a-fRin for the prefix a- + stem). In the printed display the headword is bold IAST with a trailing stem hyphen.
| Convention | Marker / form | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search key | SLP1, no hyphen | afRin | Always search without hyphens |
| Display key | <k2> adds hyphen segmentation | a-fRin | Shows morphological analysis (prefix-stem) |
| Bold headword | {@IAST-form-@} with trailing - | {@a-ṛṇin-@} | IAST, trailing hyphen marks the stem form |
| No Basic display | — | — | Use List or Advanced; STC has no Basic display |
Abbreviations
Abbreviations 75
Show first 60 of 75 abbreviations
| a. | adjectif. |
| a. v. | adjectif verbal. |
| abs. | absolutif. |
| acc. | accusatif. |
| act. | actif (voix active). |
| adv. | adverbe. |
| ag. | nom d'agent |
| aor. | aoriste. |
| caus. | causatif. |
| cf. | confer. |
| comp. | composé, composition (ne s'emploie que dans un composé). |
| compar. | comparatif. |
| conj. | conjonction. |
| dat. | datif. |
| dén. | dénominatif. |
| dés. | désidératif. |
| dim. | diminutif. |
| dimin. | diminutif. |
| du. | duel. |
| ép. | épithète. |
| f. | féminin. |
| fut. | futur. |
| fut. périphr. | futur périphrastique. |
| gén. | génitif. |
| gramm. | grammaire (vocabulaire des grammairiens indiens). |
| ifc. | in fine compositi : s'emploie aussi ou uniquement comme dernier membre d'un composé. |
| iic. | in initio compositi : s'emploie aussi ou uniquement comme premier membre d'un composé. |
| impér. | impératif. |
| impers. | impersonnel. |
| impf. | imparfait. |
| indécl. | indéclinable. |
| inf. | infinitif. |
| instr. | instrumental. |
| int. | intensif. |
| interj. | interjection. |
| KSS. | Kathāsaritsāgara. |
| loc. | locatif. |
| m. | masculin. |
| mauv. | [mauvaise] |
| MhBh. | Mahābhārata. |
| moy. | moyen (voix moyenne). |
| n. | nom. |
| nomin. | nominatif. |
| nom. | nominatif. |
| num. | numéral. |
| nt. | neutre. |
| onom. | onomatopée. |
| ord. | ordinairement. |
| partic. | participe. |
| patron. | patronymique. |
| pft. | parfait. |
| philos. | philosophique (langue). |
| pl. | pluriel. |
| prép. | préposition. |
| prév. | préverbe. |
| pronom. | pronom, pronominal. |
| pron. | pronom, pronominal. |
| qq. | quelque. |
| qqch. | quelque chose. |
| qqf. | quelquefois. |
+ 15 more — see the full list in the source file
See also
- Monier-Williams (MW) · Böhtlingk-Roth (PWG) · Apte (AP90)
- The full catalog of all 43 dictionaries
- Abbreviations & Citations — how to cite a dictionary
- csl-doc stc.rst