Antenor Nascentes

Antenor de Veras Nascentes (1886–1972) was a Brazilian philologist, etymologist, and lexicographer. He wrote the first etymological dictionary of Brazil.^[1] He also had an interest in dialect and experimental phonetics.^[2] He did analysis of popular speech in Rio de Janeiro in 1922.^[3] In 1962 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.^[4]

Antenor Nascentes

References

1. Rebecca Posner; John N. Green (1982). Language and Philology in Romance. Walter de Gruyter. p. 418. ISBN 978-90-279-7906-3.
2. Sayers (1999). Portugal and Brazil in Transit. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 61, 63, & 70. ISBN 978-0-8166-0499-9.
3. Milton M. Azevedo (13 January 2005). Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-521-80515-5.
4. Jornal de Letras, pg 10 (PDF)