vitiligo

From Latin vitilīgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)

1. (dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.

   Synonym: leucoderma

   • 2015 September 4, Rich Cohen, “Learning to Live With Vitiligo”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere!

2. (obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.

• vitiligous

• See vice#Related_terms

• vitiligo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin vitilīgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋitiliɡo/, [ˈʋit̪iˌliɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧ti‧li‧go

vitiligo

1. vitiligo

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

1. vitiligo

• “vitiligo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From an unknown stem with the disease suffix -īgō. Related to vitium, but not directly derived from it on account of the l.[1]

vitilīgō f (genitive vitilīginis); third declension

1. a skin disease, tetter
2. leprosy

Third-declension noun.

• “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

vitiligo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)

From French vitiligo.

vitiligo n (uncountable)

1. vitiligo

• IPA^(key): /bitiˈliɡo/ [bi.t̪iˈli.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: vi‧ti‧li‧go

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

1. vitiligo

• “vitiligo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014