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

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. He did analysis of popular speech in

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in 1922. In 1962 he won the

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.Jornal de Letras, pg 10 (PDF)
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