prurigo

English

Etymology

From Latin prūrīgō (“an itching, the itch”), from prūriō (“I itch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹʊəˈɹaɪɡəʊ/

Noun

prurigo (countable and uncountable, plural prurigos or prurigoes)

1. (medicine) A papular disease of the skin, with intense itching as the main symptom.

Synonyms

• pruritus

Translations

papular disease of the skin

• French: prurigo (fr)
• Polish: świerzbiączka f
• Russian: почесуха (ru) f (počesuxa)

Further reading

• prurigo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prurigo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

prurigo m (plural prurigos)

1. prurigo

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

prūriō (“I itch”) +‎ -īgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pruːˈriː.ɡoː/, [pruːˈriːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pruˈri.ɡo/, [pruˈriːɡo]

Noun

prūrīgō f (genitive prūrīginis); third declension

1. an itching, the itch
2. a lecherous itching, lasciviousness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prūrīgō	prūrīginēs
genitive	prūrīginis	prūrīginum
dative	prūrīginī	prūrīginibus
accusative	prūrīginem	prūrīginēs
ablative	prūrīgine	prūrīginibus
vocative	prūrīgō	prūrīginēs

Descendants

• Catalan: pruïja, → prurigen (learned)
• → English: prurigo
• → Italian: prurigine

References

• “prūrīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prūrīgō” on page 1,510/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prurigo.

Noun

prurigo n (uncountable)

1. prurigo

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	prurigo	prurigoul
genitive-dative	prurigo	prurigoului
vocative	prurigoule