lanugo

English

Wikidata

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

Noun

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines

Translations

soft down or fine hair

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Further reading

• lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Angulo, Lugano

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

1. down
2. fluff

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Latin

Etymology

lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laːˈnuː.ɡoː/, [ɫ̪äːˈnuːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/, [läˈnuːɡo]

Noun

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

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

• (sawdust): scobis

Derived terms

• lānūgināns
• lānūgineus
• lānūginō
• lānūginōsus

Descendants

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

References

• “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)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

lanugo m (uncountable)

1. lanugo