vitiligo

See also: Vitiligo and vitíligo

English
A hand showing symptoms of vitiligo.

Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

Noun

vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)

  1. The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
  2. (obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.

Synonyms

Derived terms
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  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/vice' title='vice'>vice</a>
  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/vicious' title='vicious'>vicious</a>
  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/vitiate' title='vitiate'>vitiate</a>
  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/vitiligo' title='vitiligo'>vitiligo</a>
  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/vituperate' title='vituperate'>vituperate</a>

Translations

See also

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
  2. leprosy

Inflection

Third declension.

Case 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

Portuguese

Noun

vitiligo m (uncountable)

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

Spanish

Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

  1. vitiligo
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