vertigo

See also: vértigo and vērtīgo

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *wértetor

Proto-Italic *wertō

Latin vertō

Latin -īgō

Latin vertīgōbor.

English vertigo

Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)

1. A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
2. A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
3. The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
4. A snail of the genus Vertigo.

Synonyms

• dizziness
• giddiness

Derived terms

• benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
• vertiginous

Translations

sensation of whirling and loss of balance

• Arabic: دَوْخَة f (dawḵa), دُوَار m (duwār), سَدَر m (sadar), سَدَارَة f (sadāra)
• Armenian: գլխապտույտ (hy) (glxaptuyt)
• Bulgarian: шемет (bg) m (šemet), замайване (bg) n (zamajvane), световъртеж (bg) m (svetovǎrtež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頭暈 / 头晕 (zh) (tóuyūn), 眩暈 / 眩晕 (zh) (xuànyùn), 頭昏 / 头昏 (zh) (tóuhūn)

• Czech: závrať (cs) f
• Danish: svimmelhed
• Dutch: duizeligheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: vertigo (eo)
• Faroese: svimbul n
• Finnish: huimaus (fi)
• French: vertige (fr) m, labyrinthite (fr) f
• Galician: vertixe f
• Georgian: ბრუ (bru), თავბრუ (tavbru), თავბრუდასხმა (tavbrudasxma), თავბრუსხვევა (tavbrusxveva)
• German: Schwindel (de) m
• Greek: ίλιγγος (el) m (ílingos), ζαλάδα (el) f (zaláda), ζάλη (el) f (záli)

  Ancient Greek: ἴλιγξ f (ílinx)

• Hindi: चक्कर (hi) m (cakkar)
• Hungarian: szédülés (hu)
• Icelandic: svimi (is) m
• Italian: vertigine (it) f
• Japanese: 目眩 (ja) (めまい, memai), くらくら (ja) (kurakura) (mimetic)
• Kazakh: бас айналу (bas ainalu)
• Korean: 현기증 (hyeon'gijeung)
• Macedonian: вртоглавица f (vrtoglavica)
• Māori: puano
• Norwegian: vertigo, svimmelhet
• Persian: سرگیجه (fa) (sargije)
• Polish: zawroty głowy nvir pl
• Portuguese: oura (pt) f, tontura (pt) f, vertigem (pt) f
• Russian: головокруже́ние (ru) n (golovokružénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вртоглавица f

  Latin: vrtoglavica (sh) f

• Slovak: závrat m
• Spanish: vértigo (es) m, mareo (es) m
• Swedish: svindel, yrsel c
• Tagalog: lula
• Tocharian B: waipalau
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)

• Urdu: چکر m (cakkar)
• Vietnamese: chóng mặt
• Welsh: pendro f

Anagrams

• Gerovit

Czech

Noun

vertigo n

1. vertigo

   Synonyms: motolice, závrať

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• See verš

Further reading

• “vertigo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Latin

Etymology

Synchronically vertō +‎ -īgō. Diachronically, may be derived from vertex, vertic-, with the velar assimilated in oblique cases to the nasal suffix derived from Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂- (e.g. genitive *wertik-nes > *wertig-nes > vertīginis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛrˈtiː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [verˈtiː.ɡo]

Noun

vertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension

1. gyration, giddiness, dizziness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vertīgō	vertīginēs
genitive	vertīginis	vertīginum
dative	vertīginī	vertīginibus
accusative	vertīginem	vertīginēs
ablative	vertīgine	vertīginibus
vocative	vertīgō	vertīginēs

Derived terms

• vertīginōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: vertigen
• → English: vertigo
• Spanish: vértigo
• French: vertige
• Italian: vertigine
• Portuguese: vertigem
  • → Galician: vertixe

References

• “vertigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vertigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vertigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.