I.C. Massim was a Romania

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n linguist

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 and a founding member of the Romanian Academy

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 (Academia Română). According to Theodor Massim his great grand son, I. C. Massim as born Ion Floricel in the village of Maxineni, near the Danube port of Braila as the son of a country priest. He changed his name to Maxim derived from the name of his birth place, and then signed his books as I. C. Massimu. The crowning achievement of I.C. Massim's linguistic career was the publication in 1875, together with August Treboniu Laurian

August Treboniu Laurian

August Treboniu Laurian was a Transylvanian Romanian politician, historian and linguist. He was born in the village of Fofeldea in Nocrich. He was a participant at the 1848 revolution, an organizer of the Romanian school and one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Laurian was a member...

, of the first complete dictionary

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 of the Romanian language

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Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

, a monumental work that included two volumes of words of Latin

Latin

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origin and a comprehensive "Glossary" of words "of foreign, dubious or unknown origin".