vitiligo

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See also: Vitiligo and vitíligo

English

A hand showing symptoms of vitiligo.

Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

Pronunciation

Noun

vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)

  1. (dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
    Synonym: leucoderma
    • 2015 September 4, Rich Cohen, “Learning to Live With Vitiligo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere!
  2. (obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋitiliɡo/,
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Hyphenation(key): vi‧ti‧li‧go

Noun

vitiligo

  1. vitiligo

Declension

Inflection of vitiligo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative vitiligo vitiligot
genitive vitiligon vitiligojen
vitiligoiden
vitiligoitten
partitive vitiligoa vitiligoja
vitiligoita
illative vitiligoon vitiligoihin
singular plural
nominative vitiligo vitiligot
accusative nom. vitiligo vitiligot
gen. vitiligon
genitive vitiligon vitiligojen
vitiligoiden
vitiligoitten
partitive vitiligoa vitiligoja
vitiligoita
inessive vitiligossa vitiligoissa
elative vitiligosta vitiligoista
illative vitiligoon vitiligoihin
adessive vitiligolla vitiligoilla
ablative vitiligolta vitiligoilta
allative vitiligolle vitiligoille
essive vitiligona vitiligoina
translative vitiligoksi vitiligoiksi
abessive vitiligotta vitiligoitta
instructive vitiligoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of vitiligo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)

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French

Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

  1. vitiligo

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Latin

Etymology

From an unknown stem with the disease suffix -īgō. Related to vitium, but not directly derived from it on account of the l.[1]

Noun

vitilīgō f (genitive vitilīginis); third declension

  1. a skin disease, tetter
  2. leprosy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vitilīgō vitilīginēs
genitive vitilīginis vitilīginum
dative vitilīginī vitilīginibus
accusative vitilīginem vitilīginēs
ablative vitilīgine vitilīginibus
vocative vitilīgō vitilīginēs

Further reading

  • vitiligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vitiligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vitium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: vi‧ti‧li‧go

Noun

vitiligo m (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitiligo.

Noun

vitiligo n (uncountable)

  1. vitiligo

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vitiligo vitiligoul
genitive-dative vitiligo vitiligoului
vocative vitiligoule

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bitiˈliɡo/
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Syllabification: vi‧ti‧li‧go

Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

  1. vitiligo

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