prurigo

From Latin prūrīgō (“an itching, the itch”), from prūriō (“I itch”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹʊəˈɹaɪɡəʊ/

prurigo (countable and uncountable, plural prurigos or prurigoes)

1. (medicine) A skin condition, characterized by itching of papules as the main symptom.

• pruritus

• “prurigo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• prurigo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Audio:

  (file)

prurigo m (plural prurigos)

1. prurigo

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

Internationalism.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pruˈriɡo/ [pruˈri.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: pru‧ri‧go

prurigo (uncountable)

1. (dermatology) prurigo: a papular disease of the skin, with intense itching as the main symptom

   Synonym: darah manis

• “prurigo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

prūriō (“I itch”) +‎ -īgō

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

prūrīgō f (genitive prūrīginis); third declension

1. an itching, the itch
2. a lecherous itching, lasciviousness

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: pruïja, → prurigen (learned)
• >? Italian: pruriggine, → prurigine
• → English: prurigo

• “prūrīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prūrīgō” on page 1,510/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Borrowed from French prurigo.

prurigo n (uncountable)

1. prurigo