vertigo

See also: vértigo and vērtīgo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.

Pronunciation

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

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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

• 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
• 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:

  Ancient: ἴλιγξ f (ílinx)

• Hungarian: szédülés (hu)
• Italian: vertigine (it) f
• Japanese: 目眩 (めまい, memai), くらくら (ja) (kurakura) (mimetic)
• Kazakh: бас айналу (bas ainalu)
• Korean: 현기증 (hyeon'gijeung)
• Macedonian: вртоглавица f (vrtoglavica)
• Maori: puano
• Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab)
• Persian: سرگیجه‎ (fa) (sargije)
• Polish: zawroty głowy (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: oura (pt) f, tontura (pt) f, vertigem (pt) f
• Russian: головокруже́ние (ru) n (golovokružénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вртоглавица f

  Roman: vrtoglavica (sh) f

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

Anagrams

• Gerovit

Czech

Noun

vertigo n

1. vertigo

   Synonym: závrať

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• See verš

Further reading

• vertigo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Latin

Etymology

From an earlier unattested *verticō, from vertex (“whirlwind, top”) +‎ -ō, later reanalyzed as vertō (“to spin”) +‎ -īgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈtiː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɛrˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈti.ɡo/, [verˈt̪iːɡo]

Noun

vertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension

1. gyration, giddiness, dizziness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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