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Prompto Soccorro
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Portuguese
Noun
m Prompto Soccorro
pronto-socorro 11 43
pt Santos, São Paulo Santos w:pt:A Tribuna 13-01-1940 Fingiu que queria suicidar-se<t:She pretended she wanted to commit suicide> http://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/153931_02/179 XLVI 250 9 Como ninguem tivesse levado a sério as palavras de Francina, passou esta a gritar por soccorro e fez tanto barulho que foi solicitado ocomparecimento da ambulancia do Prompto Soccorro e da policia. Since no one took Francina’s words seriously, she began to scream for help and made so much noise that the emergency room’s ambulance and the police were called.
Usage notes
Brazil’s 1943 orthographic reform standardized the spelling as pt pronto-socorro, hyphenated and lowercase, but this was not always followed.