lanugo

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

• IPA^(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

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lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
   • 1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:

     From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     […] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]

• lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lanugo (Q1540378)

• Angulo, Lugano

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

• IPA^(key): /laˈnuɡo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Hyphenation: la‧nu‧go

lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

1. down
2. fluff

Internationalism (see English lanugo).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑnuɡo/, [ˈlɑ̝nuɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑnuɡo
• Syllabification^(key): la‧nu‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧nu‧go

lanugo

1. (anatomy) lanugo

• utukarvoitus

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō, derived from lāna (“wool”).

• IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Hyphenation: la‧nù‧go

lanugo f (uncountable)

1. (biology) lanugo

   Synonym: lanugine

• lanugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Lugano, a lungo, languo, nugola

From lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō (“layer of”).

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

lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension

1. (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
2. (transferred sense) sawdust

   Synonym: scobis

Third-declension noun.

• “lānūgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886/2.
• “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Learned borrowing from Latin lānūgō. Doublet of flanela and wełna.

• IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -uɡɔ
• Syllabification: la‧nu‧go

lanugo n

1. lanugo (soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area)

• lanugo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French or Latin lanugo.

lanugo n (uncountable)

1. lanugo

Learned borrowing from Latin lānūgō.

• IPA^(key): /laˈnuɡo/ [laˈnu.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Syllabification: la‧nu‧go

lanugo m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) lanugo (soft, thin hair like that of a newborn)

• “lanugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024