Contribuições de José Pedro Machado para o conhecimento da história do antroponímia do português do Brasil

Abstract

We examine anthroponomy, used in Brazil, derived from Latin and Greek, documented in an etymologic onomastic dictionary of the Portuguese language (Machado, 2003). To develop the study, we followed the theoretical and methodological assumptions of metalexicography and onomastics, based in authors such as Gonçalves (1988). After corpus analysis, comprising entries from the dictionary, we concluded that there is a lack of knowledge about Latin and Greek anthroponomy and that there are doubts about etymology and the motivations for the adoption of anthroponomy items in Brazilian Portuguese lexicon. On the other hand, we attested that the undeniable heritage from ancient times is not restricted only to the common lexicon but it expands to onomastics.

Keywords

• Onomástica. Antroponímia. Metalexicografia. Português do Brasil