enfermeiro
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.feʁˈme(j).ɾu/
enfermeiro is spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-I-R-O (10 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfermeiro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nurse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que cuida dos enfermos numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância”.
What does enfermeiro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenurse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquele que cuida dos enfermos numa enfermaria, num hospital ou numa ambulância
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 enfermeiro
- enfermeiros plural
- enfermeira feminine
- enfermeiras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfermeiro?
- Brazil /ẽ.feʁˈme(j).ɾu/
- Brazil [ẽ.feɦˈme(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- Brazil /ĩ.feʁˈme(j).ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enfermeiro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfermeiro in Portuguese?
enfermeiro appears 3.2 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).