Dicionario da Lingoa Portuguesa publicado pel Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1793

Dicionario da Lingoa Portuguesa publicado pel Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1793

DICCIONARIO DA LINGOA PORTUGUEZA. - Publicado pela Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. Lisboa: Na Officina da Mesma Academia, 1793.

CCIV-544-[2] pp.; 410 mm.

Work composed of: front face; frontispiece; dedication, prologue, “Plan to Form the Dictionary [...], “Memories and Praises of Limgoa Portugueza that are found in Various Authors”, Explanation of Abbreviations, “Catalog of Authors and Works, which are read, and from which The authorities for the composition of the Diccionario da Lingoa Portugueza[...]”, Errata do Catalogo dos Autores and “Explanação das Abbreviaturas [...]” will be taken into account in the preliminary pages numbered in Roman, starting immediately afterwards with the Dictionary itself .

According to Inocêncio, the work was composed almost entirely by Pedro José da Fonseca, responsible for all the preliminary texts and a large part of the Dictionary, and Agostinho José da Costa Macedo and Bartolomeu Inácio Jorge. The volume, the only one published, is dedicated only to the letter A, ending with the word Azurrar, and would certainly be the biggest and best dictionary ever published in Portugal, since each entry provides an erudition never seen before, seeking to give examples of the smallest changes that words have undergone over time through small excerpts from Portuguese authors. The Authors Catalog is also, in itself, a valuable document of Portuguese bibliography, occupying a large part of the preliminary pages and constantly cited by Inocêncio in his Bibliographic Dictionary. Very rare and prized.

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