lentigo

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɛnˈtaɪɡəʊ/

Noun

lentigo (countable and uncountable, plural lentigos or lentigines)

1. (medicine) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Olympia Press:

     […] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features […]

Hyponyms

• freckle

Related terms

• lentiginous, lentiginose

Translations

pigmented spot on the skin — see freckle

Anagrams

• litogen

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.ti.ɡo/

Noun

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From lēns, lentis (“lentil”) +‎ -īgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lenˈtiː.ɡo/, [ɫ̪ɛn̪ˈt̪iːɡɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lenˈti.ɡo/, [len̪ˈt̪iːɡo]

Noun

lentīgo f (genitive lentiginis); third declension

1. freckle, lentil-shaped spot
2. spotty eruption

Declension

Third-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	lentīgo	lentiginēs
genitive	lentiginis	lentiginum
dative	lentiginī	lentiginibus
accusative	lentiginem	lentiginēs
ablative	lentigine	lentiginibus
vocative	lentīgo	lentiginēs

Derived terms

• lentīginōsus

Descendants

• → Catalan: lentigen (learned)
• → English: lentigo
• → French: lentigo (learned)
• → Romanian: lentigo (learned)
• → Spanish: lentigo (learned)

Further reading

• “lentigo”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “lentigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lentigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentīgo.

Noun

lentigo n (uncountable)

1. lentigo

Declension

declension of lentigo (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lentigo	lentigoul
genitive/dative	(unui) lentigo	lentigoului
vocative	lentigoule

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lenˈtiɡo/ [lẽn̪ˈt̪i.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: len‧ti‧go

Noun

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

Derived terms

• lentigo solar

 

Further reading

• “lentigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28