Egidio Forcellini (26 August 1688 – 5 April 1768) was an Italian philologist.

Forcellini was born at Fener in the district of Treviso and belonged to a very poor family.

[1] He went to the seminary at Padua in 1704, studied under Facciolati, and in due course attained the priesthood.

[1] He died in Padua in 1768 before the completion of the great work on which he had long co-operated with Facciolati.

This was the vast Latin Lexicon, which formed the basis of all similar works subsequently published until the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.