António Lopes dos Santos Valente

António Lopes dos Santos Valente (born December 4, 1839 in Sertã , † April 12, 1896 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese author, Lusitanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Valente studied law in Coimbra (graduating in 1863) and worked in the civil service in Vila de Rei and Lisbon. He is best known as a lexicographer. Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete left behind a dictionary manuscript that was edited by Valente three years after his death in 1881. After the dictionary had only reached three Portuguese editions in 70 years, despite its lexicographical quality, it was considerably more successful in Brazil from 1958 and has been revised up to the present day.

Works

• (with Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete) Diccionario contemporaneo da língua Portuguesa , 2 vols., Lisbon 1881, 1911, 1913 pages
  • 2nd edition, Lisbon 1925 (edited by José Timóteo da Silva Bastos, 1852–1939)
  • 3rd edition, 2 vols., Lisbon 1948–1952, 1418 + 1508 pages (edited by Vasco Botelho de Amaral)
  • 4th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1958
  • 5th edition, 5 vols., Rio de Janeiro 1964, 4438 pages (edited by Hamilcar de Garcia)
  • 6th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1974
  • 7th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1980
  • 8th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1987
• (Ed. And translator) Carmina, ed. by Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro, Olisipone (Lisbon) 1892.

literature

• Telmo Verdelho, Dicionarística portuguesa. Inventariação e estudo do património lexicográfico, 2007, p. 41.