impetigo

See also: impétigo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetīgō, from impetĕre (literally “to rush upon, assail, attack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmpɪˈtaɪɡəʊ/

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• IPA^(key): /ɪmpəˈtaɪɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

Noun

impetigo (plural impetigos or impetigoes or impetigines)

1. (pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.

Synonyms

• school sores

Derived terms

• impetigenous
• impetiginous

Translations

contagious bacterial skin disease

• Catalan: impetigen m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膿皰瘡／脓疱疮 (zh), 脓疱疮 (zh) (nóngpàochuāng), 膿痂疹／脓痂疹, 脓痂疹 (nóngjiāzhěn)

• Dutch: impetigo (nl) m
• Faroese: rivja f
• Finnish: märkärupi (fi)
• French: impétigo (fr) m, gourme (fr) f
• German: Impetigo f, Eiterflechte f, Blasengrind m, Eitergrind m, Schleppe (de) f, Schleppscheiße f, Schleppscheisse f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Schleppeiter m, Schmierflechte f
• Hungarian: ótvar (hu)
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• Inupiaq: kiḷḷiġruaq
• Italian: impetigine f
• Japanese: 膿痂疹 (のうかしん, nōkashin)
• Latin: impetīgō f, inpetīgō f (alternative spelling)
• Persian: بریون (barivan)
• Portuguese: impetigo (pt) m
• Russian: импети́го (ru) n (impetígo), парша́ (ru) f (paršá), стрептодерми́я (ru) f (streptodermíja)
• Spanish: impétigo (es) m
• Vietnamese: chốc lở

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeː.ti.ɣoː/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo

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Latin

Alternative forms

• inpetīgō

Etymology

impetō +‎ -īgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.peˈtiː.ɡoː/, [ɪmpɛˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.peˈti.ɡo/, [impeˈt̪iːɡo]

Noun

impetīgō f (genitive impetīginis); third declension

1. impetigo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	impetīgō	impetīginēs
Genitive	impetīginis	impetīginum
Dative	impetīginī	impetīginibus
Accusative	impetīginem	impetīginēs
Ablative	impetīgine	impetīginibus
Vocative	impetīgō	impetīginēs

Derived terms

• petīgo

Related terms

• impes
• impetibilis
• impetīginōsus

• impetītus
• impetix

Descendants

• Asturian: empeine
• → Catalan: impetigen (learned)
• → Dutch: impetigo
• → English: impetigo, petechia
• Italian: petecchia, → impetigine (learned)

• Portuguese: impingem, → impetigo (learned)
• Romanian: pecingine
• Spanish: empeine, → impétigo (learned)

References

• “impetigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impetigo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• impetigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetigo. Doublet of impigem.

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo (contagious bacterial skin disease)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French impétigo.

Noun

impetigo n (uncountable)

1. impetigo

Declension

declension of impetigo (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) impetigo	impetigoul
genitive/dative	(unui) impetigo	impetigoului
vocative	impetigoule