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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin prōmptuārium (“repository”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾi.o/ , (faster pronunciation) /pɾõˈtwa.ɾjo/
Noun
prontuário m (plural prontuários)
- a medical or criminal record
- Synonyms: registro, ficha
- repository (place for storage of things that need to be retrieved quickly)
- Synonym: repositório
- (Portugal) handbook; manual (book of reference on a certain field of knowledge)
- Synonym: manual