CLUNL

TERMVEST – The Clothing Terminology: European Portuguese version

Identification

• Project identification: TERMVEST – The Clothing Terminology: European Portuguese version
• Group: LLT – Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology
• Coordination: Susana Duarte Martins
• Start date: August 2019
• Funding: NOVA CLUNL/FCT – UIDP/03213/2020

Description

TERMVEST came to life from a collaboration between NOVA CLUNL and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Based on the work developed for Brazilian Portuguese, this project proposes to create the European Portuguese version of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) glossary: http://terminology.collectionstrust.org.uk/ICOM-costume/, an extremely important resource for cataloguing pieces of clothing in museums in Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries. This project seeks to establish contact with institutions and experts in the field to think on terminological questions about the equivalents that offer greater difficulty of validation, in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, in the latter case due to the scarcity of bibliographic sources prior to the 18th and 19th centuries. Later, the aim is to provide bibliography in the field of clothing.

Team

Susana Duarte Martins (coordinator in Portugal – CLUNL)
Maria Cristina Volpi (coordinator in Brazil – Escola de Belas Artes da UFRJ)
Janine Pimentel (Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ)
Carla Alferes Pinto (CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, NOVA University Lisbon)
Filipa Baptista (CLUNL)

Experts

1. Carla Alferes Pinto – Nova University of Lisbon
2. Caroline Müller – Federal University of Paraná
3. Catarina G. Moura – University of Beira Interior
4. Dina Caetano Dimas – National Museum of Costume
5. Elsa Mangas Ferraz – National Museum of Costume
6. Xénia Flores Ribeiro – National Museum of Costume

Partner

Museu Nacional do Traje (Portugal)

Project outputs

i. The Vocabulary of Basic Terms for the Cataloguing of Costume – Portuguese Version. Available at: https://costume.mini.icom.museum/publications-2/terminology/ 

ii. Organization of an international scientific event:What costume got to do with terms? Terminology and Clothing Heritage in the Portuguese Language, April 7–9, 2026, NOVA FCSH.

iii. Presentations:

1. Susana Duarte Martins, TERMVEST Project: methodologies for the organization of glossaries and harmonization of garment designations in Portuguese. What costume got to do with terms? Terminology and Clothing Heritage in the Portuguese Language, NOVA FCSH – NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 7, 2026.

2. Filipa Baptista,TERMVEST Project: the ICOM vocabulary and the study of 16th-century clothing in Portugal. What costume got to do with terms? Terminology and Clothing Heritage in the Portuguese Language, NOVA FCSH – NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 7, 2026.

3. Maria Cristina Volpi, Development of the Brazilian version of the Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume. What costume got to do with terms? Terminology and Clothing Heritage in the Portuguese Language, NOVA FCSH – NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 7, 2026.

4. Carla Alferes Pinto & Susana Duarte Martins. Clothing and its terminology at NOVA FCSH: past, present, and future.What costume got to do with terms? Terminology and Clothing Heritage in the Portuguese Language, NOVA FCSH – NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 7, 2026.

iv. Publications

Scientific dissemination: Volpi, Maria Cristina, Duarte Martins, Susana & Pinto, Carla Alferes (2025). About the vocabulary of basic terminology in Portuguese. ICOM Costume – International Council of Museums. Available at: https://costume.mini.icom.museum/about-the-vocabulary-of-basic-terminology-in-portuguese/