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===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/}}
* {{IPA|en|/ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lanugo.wav|Audio (UK)}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lanugo.wav|a=Southern England}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
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# Soft [[down]] or fine [[hair]], specifically that covering the human [[foetus]] or a tumorous area.
# Soft [[down]] or fine [[hair]], specifically that covering the human [[foetus]] or a tumorous area.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1874|chapter=[[s:en:The Descent of Man (Darwin)/Chapter XX|Chaper XX]]|title=The Descent of Man|author=Charles Darwin|authorlink=Charles Darwin|passage=From the presence of the woolly hair or '''lanugo''' on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1874|chapter=[[s:en:The Descent of Man (Darwin)/Chapter XX|Chaper XX]]|title=The Descent of Man|author=w:Charles Darwin|passage=From the presence of the woolly hair or '''lanugo''' on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1955|author=Vladimir Nabokov|title=Lolita|passage={{...}} early spring mountains with young-elephant '''lanugo''' along their spines {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1955|author=Vladimir Nabokov|title=Lolita|passage={{...}} early spring mountains with young-elephant '''lanugo''' along their spines {{...}}}}


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{{trans-top|soft down or fine hair}}
{{trans-top|soft down or fine hair}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|lanugen|m}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|lanugen|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|胎毛}}, {{t+|cmn|胎髮}}, {{t+|cmn|奶毛}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|untuvakarva}}, {{t+|fi|lanugo}}
* French: {{t+|fr|lanugo|m}}
* French: {{t+|fr|lanugo|m}}
* German: {{t|de|Lanugo|f}}
* German: {{t|de|Lanugo|f}}
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* Polish: {{t|pl|lanugo|n}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|lanugo|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|lanugo|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|lanugo|m}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|goflew|m-p}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}


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{{topics|en|Hair}}
{{topics|en|Hair}}

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==Esperanto==
==Esperanto==
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# [[down]]
# [[down]]
# [[fluff]]
# [[fluff]]

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==Italian==
==Italian==
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===Anagrams===
===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=aglnou|Lugano|a lungo|languo|nugola}}
* {{anagrams|it|a=aglnou|Lugano|a lungo|languo|nugola}}

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==Latin==
==Latin==
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* {{R:Gaffiot|lānūgo|p=886/2}}
* {{R:Gaffiot|lānūgo|p=886/2}}
* {{R:OLD|1|lānūgō|1,000/3}}
* {{R:OLD|1|lānūgō|1,000/3}}

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==Polish==
==Polish==
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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{root|pl|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}
{{root|pl|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}
{{bor+|pl|la|lānūgō}}.
{{lbor|pl|la|lānūgō}}. {{dbt|pl|flanela|wełna}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
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===Further reading===
===Further reading===
* {{R:pl:WSJP}}
* {{R:pl:PWN}}
* {{R:pl:PWN}}


{{C|pl|Hair}}
{{C|pl|Hair}}

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==Romanian==
==Romanian==


===Etymology===
===Etymology===
From {{bor|ro|la|}} or {{bor|ro|fr|lanugo}}.
{{bor+|ro|la|}} or {{bor|ro|fr|lanugo}}.


===Noun===
===Noun===
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====Declension====
====Declension====
{{ro-noun-n|n=sg}}
{{ro-noun-n|n=sg}}

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==Spanish==
==Spanish==
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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{root|es|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}
{{root|es|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}
Borrowed from {{bor|es|la|lānūgō}}.
{{bor+|es|la|lānūgō}}.


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{es-noun|m|-}}
{{es-noun|m|-}}


# [[#English|lanugo]]
# {{l|en|lanugo}}


===Further reading===
===Further reading===

Latest revision as of 06:55, 13 June 2024

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

  1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
    • 1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:
      From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
      […] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]

Translations

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

  1. down
  2. fluff

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lānūgō, derived from lāna (“wool”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -uɡo
  • Hyphenation: la‧nù‧go

Noun

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lanugo f (uncountable)

  1. (biology) lanugo
    Synonym: lanugine

Further reading

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  • lanugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension

  1. (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
  2. (transferred sense) sawdust

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lānūgō lānūginēs
Genitive lānūginis lānūginum
Dative lānūginī lānūginibus
Accusative lānūginem lānūginēs
Ablative lānūgine lānūginibus
Vocative lānūgō lānūginēs

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → English: lanugo
  • → Esperanto: lanugo
  • → Italian: lanugine
  • → Polish: lanugo
  • → Spanish: lanugo

References

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  • “lānūgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886/2.
  • “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
lanugo

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin lānūgō. Doublet of flanela and wełna.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡɔ/
  • Rhymes: -uɡɔ
  • Syllabification: la‧nu‧go

Noun

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lanugo n (indeclinable)

  1. Lua error in Module:labels at line 938: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got string) lanugo

Further reading

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  • lanugo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin [Term?] or French lanugo.

Noun

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lanugo n (uncountable)

  1. lanugo

Declension

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declension of lanugo (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lanugo lanugoul
genitive/dative (unui) lanugo lanugoului
vocative lanugoule

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

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lanugo m (uncountable)

  1. lanugo

Further reading

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