# vitiligo
## English
### Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

### Noun

vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)
* (dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
    Synonym: leucoderma
** 2015 September 4, Rich Cohen, “Learning to Live With Vitiligo”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:In the weeks that followed, I began to notice other people with vitiligo. On the streets, in the stores, in their cars. My God, they were everywhere!
* (obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.

#### Derived terms

* vitiligous

#### Related terms

* See vice#Related_terms

#### Translations
### Further reading

* vitiligo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋitiliɡo/, [ˈʋit̪iˌliɡo̞]
* Rhymes: -iɡo
* Syllabification: vi‧ti‧li‧go

### Noun

vitiligo
* vitiligo

#### Declension

Possessive forms of vitiligo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) :

### Further reading

* “vitiligo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

## French
### Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)
* vitiligo

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

From an unknown stem with the disease suffix -īgō. Related to vitium, but not directly derived from it on account of the l.

### Noun

vitilīgō f (genitive vitilīginis); third declension
* a skin disease, tetter
* leprosy

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | vitilīgō | vitilīginēs |
| Genitive | vitilīginis | vitilīginum |
| Dative | vitilīginī | vitilīginibus |
| Accusative | vitilīginem | vitilīginēs |
| Ablative | vitilīgine | vitilīginibus |
| Vocative | vitilīgō | vitilīginēs |

#### Further reading

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

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vitium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /vi.t͡ʃiˈli.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /vi.t͡ʃiˈli.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /vi.t͡ʃiˈli.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vi.tiˈli.ɡu/ [vi.tiˈli.ɣu]
* (Portugal) IPA: /vi.tiˈli.ɡu/ [vi.tiˈli.ɣu]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /bi.tiˈli.ɡu/ [bi.tiˈli.ɣu]
* Hyphenation: vi‧ti‧li‧go

### Noun

vitiligo m (uncountable)
* (pathology) vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French vitiligo.

### Noun

vitiligo n (uncountable)
* vitiligo

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* vitíligo

### Etymology

From Latin vitilīgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bitiˈliɡo/ [bi.t̪iˈli.ɣ̞o]
* Rhymes: -iɡo
* Syllabification: vi‧ti‧li‧go

### Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)
* vitiligo

### Further reading

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