vertigo

See also: vértigo and vērtīgo

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/

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.

Synonyms

• dizziness
• giddiness

Derived terms

• vertiginous

Translations

sensation of whirling and loss of balance

• Armenian: գլխապտույտ (hy) (glxaptuyt)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: závrať f
• Danish: svimmelhed
• Esperanto: vertigo (eo)
• Finnish: huimaus (fi)
• French: vertige (fr) m, labyrinthite (fr) f
• Georgian: ბრუ (bru), თავბრუ (tavbru), თავბრუდასხმა (tavbrudasxma), თავბრუსხვევა (tavbrusxveva)
• German: Schwindel (de) m
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: puano
• Persian: سرگیجه (fa) (sargije)
• Polish: zawroty głowy (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: vertigem (pt) f
• Russian: головокруже́ние (ru) n (golovokružénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вртоглавица f

  Roman: vrtoglavica (sh) f

• Spanish: vértigo (es) m, mareo (es) m
• Swedish: yrsel (sv) c
• Tagalog: lula

Anagrams

• Gerovit

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Czech

Noun

vertigo n

1. vertigo

Synonyms

• závrať

Related terms

• See verš

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈtiː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɛrˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate 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

• → English: vertigo
• Italian: vertigine
• Portuguese: vertigem

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.