quirófano
Spanish
    
FWOTD – 4 February 2023
    Etymology
    
From quiro- (“chiro-, hand”) + Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /kiˈɾofano/ [kiˈɾo.fa.no]
- Rhymes: -ofano
- Syllabification: qui‧ró‧fa‧no
Noun
    
quirófano m (plural quirófanos)
- operating room
-  2020 December 11, Josep Ramoneda, “De Trump a Ayuso”, in El País:- Da igual que Zendal no tenga ni médicos, ni quirófanos, ni pacientes; es y será el mejor hospital del mundo, porque ella lo dice.- It makes no difference that Zendal [Hospital] has neither doctors, nor operating rooms, nor patients; it is and will be the best hospital in the world, because she [politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso] says so.
 
 
 
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Related terms
    
- cirugía (“surgery”)
- quirúrgico (“surgical”)
Further reading
    
- “quirófano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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