hordéolo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hordeolus.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁˈdɛ.o.lu/ [oɦˈdɛ.o.lu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oɾˈdɛ.o.lu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʁˈdɛ.o.lu/
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /oɻˈdɛ.o.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁˈdɛ.o.lo/ [oɦˈdɛ.o.lo]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾˈdɛ.u.lu/ [ɔɾˈðɛ.u.lu]

Hyphenation: hor‧dé‧o‧lo

Noun

hordéolo m (plural hordéolos)

(pathology) stye (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)
Synonyms: terçol, terçolho, treçolho

Further reading

“hordéolo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026