impetigo

See also: impétigo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmpɪˈtaɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmpəˈtaɪɡoʊ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

Noun

impetigo (countable and uncountable, 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.

   Synonym: school sores

Related terms

• impetigenous
• impetiginous

Translations

contagious bacterial skin disease

• Catalan: impetigen m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: impetigo (cs) n
• 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)
• 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)
• Pohnpeian: kilin kidi
• Polish: liszajec m
• Portuguese: impetigo (pt) m
• Russian: импети́го (ru) n (impetígo), парша́ (ru) f (paršá), стрептодерми́я (ru) f (streptodermíja)
• Slovak: impetigo n
• Spanish: impétigo (es) m
• Vietnamese: chốc lở

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmpɛtɪɡo]

Noun

impetigo n

1. (pathology) impetigo

Declension

Declension of impetigo (velar neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	impetigo	impetiga
genitive	impetiga	impetig
dative	impetigu	impetigům
accusative	impetigo	impetiga
vocative	impetigo	impetiga
locative	impetigu	impetigách
instrumental	impetigem	impetigy

Further reading

• “impetigo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “impetigo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “impetigo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeː.ti.ɣoː/

  Audio (Netherlands):

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• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (pathology) impetigo

   Synonym: krentenbaard

Further reading

• impetigo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Latin

Alternative forms

• inpetīgō

Etymology

From impetō +‎ -īgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.pɛˈtiː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.peˈtiː.ɡo]

Noun

impetīgō f (genitive impetīginis); third declension

1. impetigo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	impetīgō	impetīginēs
genitive	impetīginis	impetīginum
dative	impetīginī	impetīginibus
accusative	impetīginem	impetīginēs
ablative	impetīgine	impetīginibus
vocative	impetīgō	impetīginēs

Related terms

• impes
• impetibilis
• impetīginōsus
• impetītus
• impetix
• petīgo

Descendants

• Asturian: empeine
• Italian: petecchia
  • → English: petechia
• Portuguese: impigem, impingem
• Romanian: pecingine
• Spanish: empeine
• → Catalan: impetigen
• → Dutch: impetigo
• → English: impetigo
• → Italian: impetigine
• → Portuguese: impetigo
• → Spanish: impétigo

References

• “impetigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "impetigo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō. Doublet of impigem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pɨˈti.ɡu/ [ĩ.pɨˈti.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)

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

Further reading

• “impetigo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French impétigo, from Latin impetīgō.

Noun

impetigo n (uncountable)

1. impetigo

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	impetigo	impetigoul
genitive-dative	impetigo	impetigoului
vocative	impetigoule

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impeciɡɔ/, [ˈimpeciɡɔ]
• Rhymes: -iɡɔ
• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

Noun

impetigo n

1. (pathology) impetigo

Declension

Declension of impetigo
(pattern mesto)

	singular	plural
nominative	impetigo	impetigá
genitive	impetiga	impetíg
dative	impetigu	impetigám
accusative	impetigo	impetigá
locative	impetigu	impetigách
instrumental	impetigom	impetigami

Further reading

• “impetigo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026