Antenor Nascentes (19 June 1886 – 6 September 1972) was a Brazilian philologist, etymologist, and lexicographer.
He wrote the first etymological dictionary of Brazil. He also had an interest in dialect and experimental phonetics. He did analysis of popular speech in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. In 1962 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.
References
- Rebecca Posner; John N. Green (1982). Language and Philology in Romance. Walter de Gruyter. p. 418. ISBN 978-90-279-7906-3.
- Sayers (1999). Portugal and Brazil in Transit. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 61, 63, & 70. ISBN 978-0-8166-0499-9.
- Milton M. Azevedo (13 January 2005). Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-521-80515-5.
- Jornal de Letras, pg 10 (PDF)
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