# impetigo
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō, from impetĕre (literally “to rush upon, assail, attack”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɪmpɪˈtaɪɡəʊ/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ɪmpəˈtaɪɡoʊ/
* Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

### Noun

impetigo (countable and uncountable, plural impetigos or impetigoes or impetigines)
* (pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.
    Synonym: school sores

#### Derived terms

* impetigenous
* impetiginous

#### Translations
## Czech
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɪmpɛtɪɡo]

### Noun

impetigo n
* (pathology) impetigo

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “impetigo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “impetigo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “impetigo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪmˈpeː.ti.ɣoː/
    Audio (Netherlands):(file)
* Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

### Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)
* (pathology) impetigo
    Synonym: krentenbaard

### Further reading

* impetigo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* inpetīgō

### Etymology

impetō +‎ -īgō

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /im.peˈtiː.ɡoː/, [ɪmpɛˈt̪iːɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /im.peˈti.ɡo/, [impeˈt̪iːɡo]

### Noun

impetīgō f (genitive impetīginis); third declension
* impetigo

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* petīgo

#### Related terms

* impes
* impetibilis
* impetīginōsus
* impetītus
* impetix

#### Descendants

* Asturian: empeine
* Italian: petecchia
** → English: petechia
* Portuguese: impingem
* Romanian: pecingine
* Spanish: empeine
* → Catalan: impetigen
* → Dutch: impetigo
* → English: impetigo
* → Italian: impetigine
* → Portuguese: impetigo
* → Spanish: impétigo

### References

* “impetigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* impetigo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* impetigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō. Doublet of impigem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.peˈt͡ʃi.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.pɨˈti.ɡu/ [ĩ.pɨˈti.ɣu]
* Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

### Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)
* (pathology) impetigo (contagious bacterial skin disease)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French impétigo, from Latin impetīgō.

### Noun

impetigo n (uncountable)
* impetigo

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō, from impetĕre (literally “to rush upon, assail, attack”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈimpeciɡɔ]

### Noun

impetigo n
* (pathology) impetigo

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “impetigo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025