lentigo
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡəʊ/
Noun
[edit]lentigo (countable and uncountable, plural lentigos or lentigines)
- (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]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pigmented spot on the skin — see freckle
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lentigo m (plural lentigos)
Further reading
[edit]- “lentigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lēns, lentis (“lentil”) + -īgō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lenˈtiː.ɡo/, [ɫ̪ɛn̪ˈt̪iːɡɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lenˈti.ɡo/, [len̪ˈt̪iːɡo]
Noun
[edit]lentīgo f (genitive lentiginis); third declension
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]- “lentigo”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “lentigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lentigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentīgo.
Noun
[edit]lentigo n (uncountable)
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]Noun
[edit]lentigo m (plural lentigos)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lentigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- es:Skin