ostigo

== Latin == === Etymology === An irregular combination of ōs (“the mouth”) +‎ -īgō (“diseased condition”), the spurious t inserted probably by analogy with the word’s synonym, mentīgō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [oːsˈtiː.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [osˈtiː.ɡo] === Noun === ōstīgō f (genitive ōstīginis); third declension a kind of eruption or scab on lambs ante AD 70, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (author), E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner (editors), Res Rustica in On Agriculture, volume II: Books V–IX (1954), book vii, chapter v, § 21, page 275: ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (eruption or scab on lambs): mentīgō === References === “ostīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ostīgo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,097/2. “ostīgō” on page 1,276/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)