Antenor Nascentes (19 June 1886 – 6 September 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 experimentalphonetics.[2] He did analysis of popular speech inRio de Janeiro in 1922.[3] In 1962 he won thePrêmio Machado de Assis.[4]
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