Antenor Nascentes

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Antenor Nascentes (19 June 1886 – 6 September 1972) was a Brazilian philologist, etymologist, and lexicographer.

He wrote the first etymological dictionary of Brazil.{{cite book|author1=Rebecca Posner|author2=John N. Green|title=Language and Philology in Romance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5UNCmS0W4oC&pg=PA418|year=1982|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-90-279-7906-3|page=418}} He also had an interest in dialect and experimental phonetics.{{cite book|author=Sayers|title=Portugal and Brazil in Transit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0e0Altj5SQC&pg=PA61|year=1999|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-0499-9|pages=61, 63, & 70}} He did analysis of popular speech in Rio de Janeiro in 1922.{{cite book|author=Milton M. Azevedo|title=Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWk6gpv8ep0C&pg=PA214|date=13 January 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80515-5|page=214}} In 1962 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.[https://static-files.folhadirigida.com.br/edicoes/22600.pdf?v=10 Jornal de Letras, pg 10 (PDF)]