Jump to content

lentigo

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

lentigo (countable and uncountable, plural lentigos or lentigines)

  1. (medicine) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Olympia Press:
      [] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features []

Hyponyms

[edit]
[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

  1. lentigo

Further reading

[edit]

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From lēns, lentis (lentil) +‎ -īgō.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

lentīgo f (genitive lentiginis); third declension

  1. freckle, lentil-shaped spot
  2. spotty eruption

Declension

[edit]

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lentīgo lentiginēs
genitive lentiginis lentiginum
dative lentiginī lentiginibus
accusative lentiginem lentiginēs
ablative lentigine lentiginibus
vocative lentīgo lentiginēs

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Catalan: lentigen (learned)
  • English: lentigo
  • French: lentigo (learned)
  • Romanian: lentigo (learned)
  • Spanish: lentigo (learned)

Further reading

[edit]

Romanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentīgo.

Noun

[edit]

lentigo n (uncountable)

  1. lentigo

Declension

[edit]
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative lentigo lentigoul
genitive-dative lentigo lentigoului
vocative lentigoule

Spanish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /lenˈtiɡo/ [lẽn̪ˈt̪i.ɣ̞o]
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Syllabification: len‧ti‧go

Noun

[edit]

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

  1. lentigo

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]