The Portuguese language in Cyrillic transcription in an eighteenth‑century dictionary

摘要

In 1787‑1789 two volumes of a huge lexicographic work were published, with the title Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa (…), commonly called Catherine the Great's Dictionary. The dictionary contains 273 Russian entries from different thematic groups, each one with semantic equivalents in two hundred European and Asiatic languages. All the words, with no exception, are transcribed in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, independently from the language they represent. The paper deals, in general terms, with the transcription of Portuguese words included in the dictionary.