author
Cândido de Figueiredo
1846–1925
Best known for a landmark Portuguese dictionary, this scholar spent a lifetime thinking about how words work. His writing helped shape debates about grammar, spelling, and usage for generations of readers.
2 Audiobooks
A penalidade na India segundo o Código de Manu
by Cândido de Figueiredo
Morte de Yaginadatta Episodio do poema epico - O Ramayana
by Valmiki, Cândido de Figueiredo
About the author
Born in Portugal in 1846 and later active in Lisbon, he became known as a writer, philologist, grammarian, and lexicographer with a deep interest in the Portuguese language.
His most famous work was the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, first published in 1899 and reissued many times afterward. That dictionary made him one of the best-known language scholars of his time and secured his place in Portuguese literary and linguistic history.
Sources consulted during research also describe him as a lawyer and civil servant by profession, as well as a translator and intellectual. He died in 1925, leaving behind a body of work closely tied to questions of language, usage, and literary culture.