vitiligo
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/
Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ
=== Noun ===
vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)
(dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
Synonym: leucoderma
(obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.
==== Derived terms ====
vitiligous
==== Related terms ====
See vice#Related_terms
==== Translations ====
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈʋitiliɡo/, [ˈʋit̪iˌliɡo̞]
Rhymes: -iɡo
Syllabification(key): vi‧ti‧li‧go
Hyphenation(key): vi‧ti‧li‧go
=== Noun ===
vitiligo
vitiligo
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“vitiligo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023
== French ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /vi.ti.li.ɡo/
=== Noun ===
vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)
vitiligo
=== Further reading ===
“vitiligo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From an unknown stem with the disease suffix -īgō. Related to vitium, but not directly derived from it on account of the l.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɪ.tɪˈliː.ɡoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vi.tiˈliː.ɡo]
=== Noun ===
vitilīgō f (genitive vitilīginis); third declension
a skin disease, tetter
leprosy
==== Declension ====
Third-declension noun.
==== Descendants ====
→ English: vitiligo (learned)
→ French: vitiligo (learned)
→ Romanian: vitiligo
→ Italian: vitiligine
→ Portuguese: vitiligo (learned)
→ Russian: витили́го (vitilígo) (learned)
→ Spanish: vitiligo (learned)
==== Further reading ====
“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.
=== References ===
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: vi‧ti‧li‧go
=== Noun ===
vitiligo m (uncountable)
(pathology) vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)
=== Further reading ===
“vitiligo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“vitiligo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French vitiligo, from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Noun ===
vitiligo n (uncountable)
vitiligo
==== Declension ====
== Spanish ==
=== Alternative forms ===
vitíligo
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /bitiˈliɡo/ [bi.t̪iˈli.ɣ̞o]
Rhymes: -iɡo
Syllabification: vi‧ti‧li‧go
=== Noun ===
vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)
(dermatology) vitiligo
=== Further reading ===
“vitiligo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025