Afonso Taunay, scientific lexicographer

Authors

  • Gildo Magalhaes Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-2158.i11p140-150

Keywords:

Afonso Taunay, lexicography, nationalism

Abstract

Historian Afonso Taunay was also an attentive dictionary writer of scientific and technical terms, an aspect little known today. In this review, three of his works are presented, with emphasis on his nationalist positions that emphasize the need to register subjects already recurring in his time, many of them connected with innovations and areas of studies that were developed in the first half of the 20th century.

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References

ALVES, Ana Maria de Alencar, O Ipiranga apropriado (São Paulo: Humanitas, 2001).

Lexico de Lacunas – Subsidios para os diccionarios da língua portugueza (Tours: Imprimerie E. Arnault, 1914).

Zoologia fantástica do Brasil (séculos XVI e XVII). São Paulo: Melhoramentos e Weiszflog, 1934. Fonte: https://digital.bbm.usp.br/

Lexico de termos technicos e scientificos ainda não apontados nos diccionarios da língua portugueza. São Paulo: Annuario da Escola Polytechnica de S. Paulo. XII (Separata, 154 p.), 1909.

“A Terminologia Zoologica e Scientifica em geral e a deficiencia dos grandes Diccionarios Portuguezes”, Revista do Museu Paulista, tomo XV, p. 277-383. São Paulo: Officinas do “Diario Official”, 1927

Inopia scientifica e vocabular dos grandes diccionarios portuguezes. Separata do tomo XVII, 2ª parte (182 p.), Revista do Museu Paulista. São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial, 1932.

Published

2021-08-14

Issue

Section

Reviews

How to Cite

Magalhaes, G. (2021). Afonso Taunay, scientific lexicographer. Khronos, 11, 140-150. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-2158.i11p140-150