valgus

Borrowed from Latin valgus.

valgus (not comparable)

1. knock-kneed (having the distal part of a limb displaced or twisted away from the midline of the body)

• hallux valgus
• talipes valgus

From valge +‎ -us. Cognate to Finnish valo (“light”) and Hungarian világ (“world”).

valgus (genitive valguse, partitive valgust)

1. light

valgus (invariable)

1. knock-kneed

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

From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“I roll”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaɫ.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈval.ɡus]

valgus (feminine valga, neuter valgum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bent out
2. bow-legged, bandy
3. (figurative) wry, sarcastic

First/second-declension adjective.

• (bow-legged): vārus (knock-kneed)

• → Catalan: valg
• → English: valgus
• → Translingual: Valgus

• “valgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• valgus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

valgus

1. accusative masculine plural of valgs

Borrowed from French valgus.

valgus n (uncountable)

1. valgus