The ''Dicionário Houaiss da LÃngua Portuguesa'' (''Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language'') is a major reference
dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...
for the
Portuguese language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomà ...
, edited by Brazilian writer
Antônio Houaiss.
The dictionary was composed by a team of two hundred
lexicographers
This list contains people who contributed to the field of lexicography, the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries.
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* Maulvi Abdul Haq (India/Pakistan, 1872–1961) Baba-e-Urdu, English-Urdu dictionary
*Ivar Aasen (Norway, 181 ...
from several countries. The project started in 1986 and was finished in 2000, one year after Houaiss's death.
The book claims to be the most complete Portuguese dictionary to date, with around 228,500 entries, 376,500 senses, 415,500
synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...
s, 26,400
antonym
In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is ''even'' entails that it is not ''odd''. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members i ...
s, and 57,000 historical words. It aims to cover all variants of the language, including
African,
Brazilian, and
European Portuguese
European Portuguese (, ), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese () or as the Portuguese (language) of Portugal (), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portugues ...
.
See also
*''
Novo Dicionário da LÃngua Portuguesa''
External links
Official website
References
Portuguese dictionaries
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