prontuário
Portuguese, noun/pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾju/
prontuário is spelled P-R-O-N-T-U-Á-R-I-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prontuário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a medical or criminal record” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fichário ou ficha que contém informações e antecedentes importantes a respeito de alguém ou de algo”.
What does prontuário mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea medical or criminal record
- 2
masculinerepository (place for storage of things that need to be retrieved quickly)
- 3
Portugalmasculinehandbook; manual (book of reference on a certain field of knowledge)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fichário ou ficha que contém informações e antecedentes importantes a respeito de alguém ou de algo
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 prontuário
- prontuários plural
- prontuario alternative obsolete
- promptuario alternative obsolete
- promptuário alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prontuário?
- Brazil /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾju/
- Brazil /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
- Portugal /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prontuário in Portuguese?
prontuário appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).