tuberculose
Portuguese, noun/tu.beʁ.kuˈlɔ.zi/
tuberculose is spelled T-U-B-E-R-C-U-L-O-S-E (11 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuberculose is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “tuberculosis (infectious disease)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doença infectocontagiosa e endêmica, provocada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis ou bacilo de Koch, podendo…”.
What does tuberculose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetuberculosis (infectious disease)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doença infectocontagiosa e endêmica, provocada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis ou bacilo de Koch, podendo atingir quase todos os tecidos do corpo, especialmente os pulmões, caracterizada pela formação de tubérculos caseosos 2. designação comum a algumas bacterioses vegetais que se manifestam pela formação de nodosidades nos tecidos
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 tuberculose
- tuberculoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tuberculose?
- Brazil /tu.beʁ.kuˈlɔ.zi/
- Brazil [tu.beh.kuˈlɔ.zi]
- /tu.beɾ.kuˈlɔ.zi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tuberculose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tuberculose in Portuguese?
tuberculose appears 4.8 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).