vertigo

Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/

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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.
4. A snail of the genus Vertigo.

• dizziness
• giddiness

• Gerovit

vertigo n

1. vertigo

   Synonym: závrať

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• See verš

• “vertigo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Synchronically vertō +‎ -īgō. Diachronically, may be derived from vertex, vertic-, with the velar assimilated in oblique cases to the nasal suffix derived from Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂- (e.g. genitive *wertik-nes > *wertig-nes > vertīginis).

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

vertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension

1. gyration, giddiness, dizziness

Third-declension noun.

• vertīginōsus

• Catalan: vertigen
• → English: vertigo
• Spanish: vértigo
• French: vertige
• Italian: vertigine
• Portuguese: vertigem
  • → Galician: vertixe

• “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.