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)

1. operating room
   • 2020 December 11, Josep Ramoneda, “De Trump a Ayuso”, in El País‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• cirugía (“surgery”)
• quirúrgico (“surgical”)

 

Further reading

• “quirófano”, 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