lanugo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)
- Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
- 1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:
- From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- […] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]
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Translations
soft down or fine hair
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Further reading
lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - lanugo (Q1540378)
Anagrams
- Angulo, Lugano
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [laˈnuɡo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -uɡo
- Hyphenation: la‧nu‧go
Noun
lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)
- down
- fluff
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō, derived from lāna (“wool”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -uɡo
- Hyphenation: la‧nù‧go
Noun
lanugo f (uncountable)
- (biology) lanugo
- Synonym: lanugine
Further reading
- lanugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- Lugano, a lungo, languo, nugola
Latin
Etymology
lāna (“wool”) + -ūgō
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laːˈnuː.ɡoː/, [ɫ̪äːˈnuːɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/, [läˈnuːɡo]
Noun
lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension
- (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
- (transferred sense) sawdust
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lānūgō | lānūginēs |
| Genitive | lānūginis | lānūginum |
| Dative | lānūginī | lānūginibus |
| Accusative | lānūginem | lānūginēs |
| Ablative | lānūgine | lānūginibus |
| Vocative | lānūgō | lānūginēs |
Synonyms
- (sawdust): scobis
Derived terms
- lānūgināns
- lānūgineus
- lānūginō
- lānūginōsus
Descendants
- → English: lanugo
- → Esperanto: lanugo
- → Italian: lanugine
- → Polish: lanugo
- → Spanish: lanugo
References
- “lānūgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886/2
- “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Polish
lanugo
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡɔ/
- Rhymes: -uɡɔ
- Syllabification: la‧nu‧go
Noun
lanugo n (indeclinable)
- (anatomy) lanugo
Further reading
- lanugo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- lanugo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin [Term?] or French lanugo.
Noun
lanugo n (uncountable)
- lanugo
Declension
declension of lanugo (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) lanugo | lanugoul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) lanugo | lanugoului |
| vocative | lanugoule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Noun
lanugo m (uncountable)
- lanugo
Further reading
- “lanugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014