lentigo

English

Noun

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 […]

Hyponyms

• freckle

Derived terms

• lentiginous

Translations

pigmented spot on the skin — see freckle

Anagrams

• litogen

French

Noun

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lentigo or Latin lentigo.

Noun

lentigo n (uncountable)

1. lentigo

Declension

declension of lentigo (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lentigo	lentigoul
genitive/dative	(unui) lentigo	lentigoului
vocative	lentigoule

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lentigo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lentigo m (plural lentigos)

1. lentigo

Derived terms

• lentigo solar

 

Further reading

• “lentigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014