lentigo

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

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

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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 […]

• freckle

• lentiginous, lentiginose

• litogen

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.ti.ɡo/

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

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

From lēns, lentis (“lentil”) +‎ -īgō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɛnˈtiː.ɡɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [len̪ˈt̪iː.ɡo]

lentīgo f (genitive lentiginis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• lentīginōsus

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

• 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.

Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentīgo.

lentigo n (uncountable)

1. lentigo

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo.

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

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

• “lentigo”, 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