escorbuto

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French scorbut, related to Dutch scheurbuik.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.koʁˈbu.tu/ , /es.koʁˈbu.tu/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /is.koɾˈbu.tu/, /es.koɾˈbu.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.koʁˈbu.tu/, /eʃ.koʁˈbu.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.koɻˈbu.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.kuɾˈbu.tu/

Hyphenation: es‧cor‧bu‧to

Noun

escorbuto m (usually uncountable, plural escorbutos)

(pathology) scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French scorbut, from Late Latin scorbutus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eskoɾˈbuto/
Rhymes: -uto
Syllabification: es‧cor‧bu‧to

Noun

escorbuto m (plural escorbutos)

scurvy

Related terms

Further reading

“escorbuto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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