esculápio
Portuguese, noun/is.kuˈla.pju/
esculápio is spelled E-S-C-U-L-Á-P-I-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esculápio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “doctor, physician” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa diplomada em medicina, qualificada para tratar doentes”.
What does esculápio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedoctor, physician
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa diplomada em medicina, qualificada para tratar doentes
noun: 1. prenome masculino
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 esculápio
- esculápios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esculápio?
- Brazil /is.kuˈla.pju/
- Brazil /es.kuˈla.pju/
- /iʃ.kuˈla.pju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esculápio in Portuguese?
esculápio appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).