surdo

Borrowed from Portuguese surdo (“deaf, muffled”). Doublet of surd.

surdo (plural surdos)

1. A type of percussion instrument used in Brazil.

• dorus, Duros, sudor, Durso, sourd

From Latin surdus.

surdo

1. deaf

surdō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of surdus

Inherited from Latin surdus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈsurdə], (feminine) [ˈsordə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈsurdə] (masculine/feminine)

surdo (feminine singular sorda, masculine plural surde, feminine plural sorde)

1. deaf

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 190: “sorda; sorda; sordi; sorde” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “surdo-sórda”, in Schedario Napoletano

• sôrdo (Beira)
• xôrdo (Trás-os-Montes)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sordo, from Latin surdus, from the Proto-Indo-European root *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).

surdo (feminine surda, masculine plural surdos, feminine plural surdas, comparable, comparative mais surdo, superlative o mais surdo or surdíssimo)

1. deaf (unable to hear)
2. (of a sound) faint, muffled
3. deaf (unwilling to listen or be persuaded)
4. (phonetics) voiceless, unvoiced (spoken without vibration of the vocal cords)

   Antonyms: sonoro, vozeado

   Os fonemas /t/ e /f/ são surdos.

   The phonemes /t/ and /f/ are unvoiced.

surdo m (plural surdos, feminine surda, feminine plural surdas)

1. deaf person

   Antonym: ouvinte

2. (music) floor tom, low tom (a type of drum, traditionally used in samba)

• absurdo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

surdo

1. first-person singular present indicative of surdir

• “surdo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025