impetigo

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmpɪˈtaɪɡəʊ/
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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmpəˈtaɪɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ

impetigo (plural impetigos or impetigoes or impetigines)

1. (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.

• school sores

• impetigenous
• impetiginous

Borrowed from Latin impetigo.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeː.ti.ɣoː/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo

   Synonym: krentenbaard

• impetigo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• inpetīgō

impetō +‎ -īgō

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

impetīgō f (genitive impetīginis); third declension

1. impetigo

Third-declension noun.

• petīgo

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin impetigō. Doublet of impigem.

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo (contagious bacterial skin disease)

Borrowed from French impétigo.

impetigo n (uncountable)

1. impetigo