terçol
Portuguese, noun/teʁˈsɔw/
terçol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “stye (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequeno abcesso que ocorre na borda das pálpebras causado pela inflamação de glândulas sebáceas”.
What does terçol mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinestye (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequeno abcesso que ocorre na borda das pálpebras causado pela inflamação de glândulas sebáceas
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 terçol
- terçóis plural
- terçolho alternative
- treçolho alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce terçol?
- Brazil /teʁˈsɔw/
- Brazil [tehˈsɔʊ̯]
- /teɾˈsɔw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to terçol
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is terçol in Portuguese?
terçol appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).