prurito
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English pruritus, French prurit, Italian prurito, Spanish prurito, ultimately from Latin prūrītus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pru.ˈri.to/, /pɾu.ˈɾi.tɔ/
Noun
prurito (plural pruriti)
- itch, itching
- (medicine) pruritus
Derived terms
- pruritar (“to itch”)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin prūrītus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pruˈri.to/
- Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: pru‧rì‧to
Noun
prurito m (plural pruriti)
- itch (all senses)
- (pathology) pruritus
Further reading
- prurito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- putrirò
Latin
Verb
prūrītō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of prūriō
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin prurītus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾuˈɾito/ [pɾuˈɾi.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: pru‧ri‧to
Noun
prurito m (plural pruritos)
- (pathology) pruritus, itching
- Synonym: picor
- perfectionism
- desire; fancy; itching
- tener el prurito de hacer algo
- to be itching to do something
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, "Los trabajos y los días", in El juguete rabioso
- Tenía el prurito del movimiento, era un goloso visual, entraba en éxtasis frente a la mercadería por el dinero que representaba.
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Related terms
- pruriginoso
Further reading
- “prurito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014