cirurgião
Portuguese, noun/si.ɾuʁ.ʒiˈɐ̃w̃/
cirurgião is spelled C-I-R-U-R-G-I-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,158th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cirurgião is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “surgeon (doctor who performs surgery)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “médico que realiza a cirurgia”.
What does cirurgião mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesurgeon (doctor who performs surgery)
- 2
masculinesurgeonfish (fish of the family Acanthuridae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. médico que realiza a cirurgia
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cirurgião
- cirurgiões plural
- cirurgiães plural rare
- cirurgiã feminine
- cirurgiãs feminine plural
- cirugião alternative nonstandard
- chirurgião alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cirurgião?
- Brazil /si.ɾuʁ.ʒiˈɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [si.ɾuɦ.ʒiˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /si.ɾuʁˈʒjɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cirurgião
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cirurgião in Portuguese?
cirurgião appears 7.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).