Polyglot Dictionary

cirugía

/siɾuˈxia/

la noun B2

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain Medical Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
cirugías

Meaning

  1. surgery

    • Se sometió a una cirugía.

      He underwent surgery.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

quirófano

Close — quirófano is the room; cirugía is the procedure performed there.

Similar in other languages

French

chirurgie

chirurgie is the French word for the same thing — both mean "surgery."

Portuguese

cirurgia

cirurgia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "surgery."

Practice

1 What does cirugía mean?

2 Fill the gap: Se sometió a una ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches cirugía?

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