escorbuto
Portuguese, noun/is.koʁˈbu.tu/
escorbuto is spelled E-S-C-O-R-B-U-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escorbuto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doença provocada pela carência de vitamina C; os principais sintomas são enfraquecimento geral, hemorragias…”.
What does escorbuto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescurvy (deficiency of vitamin C)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doença provocada pela carência de vitamina C; os principais sintomas são enfraquecimento geral, hemorragias diversas, hálito fétido e tumefação purulenta e sanguinolenta das gengivas
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 escorbuto
- escorbutos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escorbuto?
- Brazil /is.koʁˈbu.tu/
- Brazil [is.koɦˈbu.tu]
- Brazil /es.koʁˈbu.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escorbuto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escorbuto in Portuguese?
escorbuto appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).