prontuário
See also: prontuario
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- prontuario (obsolete)
- promptuario (obsolete)
- promptuário (obsolete)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin prōmptuārium (“repository”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾi.u/ [pɾõ.tʊˈa.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾõ.tuˈa.ɾi.o/ [pɾõ.tʊˈa.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /pɾõˈtwa.ɾjo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾõˈtwa.ɾju/
Noun
prontuário m (plural prontuários)
- a medical or criminal record
- 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “prontuário”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “prontuário”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026