Bento Pereira

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Bento Pereira (* 1605 in Borba ; † February 4, 1681 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese Jesuit , theologian, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Pereira entered the Jesuit order in 1620 and taught at the University of Évora . He was rector of the Irish College in Lisbon and an assistant to the Father General of the Jesuits.

The Romance studies knows Pereira as an important lexicographer of the Portuguese chronologically between Agostinho Barbosa and Rafael Bluteau .

Bento Pereira should not be confused with the Spanish Jesuit Benedict Pereira (1536–1610).

Works

Linguistics

  • Prosodia in vocabularium trilingue, Latinum, Lusitanicum, & Hispanicum digesta , Évora 1634, 566 pages, two columns, 1653 (Latin-Portuguese-Spanish)
  • Tesouro da língua portuguesa , Lisbon 1647, 194 pages, 1670 (Portuguese-Latin)
  • Florilegio dos modos de fallar, e adagios da lingoa Portuguesa . Dividido em duas partes. Em a primeira das quaes se poem pella ordem do alphabeto as frases portuguesas, a que correspondem as mais puras, & elegantes latinas. Na segunda se poem os principaes adagios portugueses, com seu latim prouerbial correspondente. Pera se aiuntar a Prosodia, & Thesouro portugues, como appendiz, ou complemento, Lisbon 1655 (Portuguese-Latin)
  • Prosodia in Vocabularium trilingue, Latinum, Lusitanicum, Castellanicum, digesta ... Opus hac tertia editione ... locupletatum, Lisbon 1661, 1669, 1674, 1683, 1697, 1711, 1723, 1732, 1741, 1750 (partly including the Tesouro of 1647 and of Florilegio of 1655)
  • Regras gerays, breves, & comprehensivas da melhor ortografia . Com que se podem evitar erros no escrever da lingua latina, & portugueza. Para se ajuntar à Prosodia, Lisbon 1666
  • Ars grammaticae pro lingua lusitana addiscenda latino idiomata proponitur , Lyon 1672 (323 pages)

Other works

  • Pallas togata et armata , Évora 1636
  • Academia seu res publica litteraria , Lisbon 1662
  • Promptvarivm jvridicvm , Lisbon 1664, Évora 1690
  • Elucidarium Sacrae Theologiae Moralis , Évora 1668, 1678, 1703, Coimbra 1744

literature

  • Dieter Woll: 181. Portuguese Lexicography. In: Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume. Berlin - New York 1990, pp. 1723-1735 (here: p. 1726).

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personal data
SURNAME Pereira, Bento
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereyra, Bento
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Jesuit, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Borba
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1681
Place of death Lisbon