lentigo
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡəʊ/
Noun
lentigo (countable and uncountable, plural lentigos or lentigines)
- (medicine) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Olympia Press:
- […] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features […]
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
pigmented spot on the skin — see freckle
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.
Pronunciation
Noun
lentigo m (plural lentigos)
Further reading
- “lentigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From lēns, lentis (“lentil”) + -īgō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lenˈtiː.ɡo/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lenˈti.ɡo/,
Noun
lentīgo f (genitive lentiginis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lentīgo | lentiginēs |
| genitive | lentiginis | lentiginum |
| dative | lentiginī | lentiginibus |
| accusative | lentiginem | lentiginēs |
| ablative | lentigine | lentiginibus |
| vocative | lentīgo | lentiginēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: lentigen (learned)
- → English: lentigo
- → French: lentigo (learned)
- → Romanian: lentigo (learned)
- → Spanish: lentigo (learned)
Further reading
- “lentigo”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “lentigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lentigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentīgo.
Noun
lentigo n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | lentigo | lentigoul |
| genitive-dative | lentigo | lentigoului |
| vocative | lentigoule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.
Pronunciation
Noun
lentigo m (plural lentigos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lentigo”, 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