vitiligo

See also: Vitiligo and vitíligo

English

A hand showing symptoms of vitiligo.

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

Noun

vitiligo (plural vitiligos)

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

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Latin

Etymology

From vitium (“fault, defect”).

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

References

  • 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

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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