quirófano

Portuguese

Etymology

From quiro- (“chiro-, hand”) +‎ Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kiˈɾɔ.fa.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kiˈɾɔ.fa.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kiˈɾɔ.fa.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kiˈɾɔ.fɐ.nu/

• Hyphenation: qui‧ró‧fa‧no

Noun

quirófano m (plural quirófanos)

1. operating room

   Synonyms: bloco operatório, bloco cirúrgico

Further reading

• “quirófano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “quirófano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

FWOTD – 4 February 2023

Etymology

From quiro- (“chiro-, hand”) +‎ Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiˈɾofano/ [kiˈɾo.fa.no]
• Rhymes: -ofano
• Syllabification: qui‧ró‧fa‧no

Noun

quirófano m (plural quirófanos)

1. operating room

   Synonym: salón (Panama)

   • 2020 December 11, Josep Ramoneda, “De Trump a Ayuso”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Da igual que Zendal no tenga ni médicos, ni quirófanos, ni pacientes; es y será el mejor hospital del mundo, porque ella lo dice.

     It makes no difference that Zendal [Hospital] has neither doctors, nor operating rooms, nor patients; it is and will be the best hospital in the world, because she [politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso] says so.

Related terms

• cirugía (“surgery”)
• quirúrgico (“surgical”)

Further reading

• “quirófano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024