I’m very shocked by this news. Patrick was a gentleman and overall an admirable scholar. At his brilliant resourcefulness the onomastic studies they owe a lot and his dictionaries are one of useful instruments created to help onomasticians and lexicographers. In my mind it’s still alive the souvenir of a dinner together in Santiago de Compostela, in 1999, and of all the mails that we exchanged at the time of construction of DAFN1 and DAFN 2. In the sad years of his illness I received only some words by mutual friends. Dear Patrick, sit tibi terra levis.