🇵🇹 Portuguese

escritório

masculine

o escritório

office

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escritório
/u iskɾiˈtɔɾiu/
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How do you say escritório in Portuguese?

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/u iskɾiˈtɔɾiu/

How do you pronounce escritório in Portuguese?

escritório is pronounced /u iskɾiˈtɔɾiu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O escritório novo está localizado no centro da cidade.

The new office is located in the city center.

Meu escritório particular é muito organizado e profissional.

My private office is very organized and professional.

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Why is it masculine?

Escritório is masculine. It derives from Latin "scriptorium" (a place for writing). In Portuguese, the -ório suffix is a productive masculine suffix, and words ending in -ório are consistently masculine in gender. This suffix comes from Latin -orium (neuter), which regularly evolved into the masculine -ório in Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for office?

The Portuguese word for office is o escritório — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbureaulemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishoficina flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianufficiol'masculine

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