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

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

impetigo (countable and uncountable, 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.

   Synonym: school sores

• impetigenous
• impetiginous

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmpɛtɪɡo]

impetigo n

1. (pathology) impetigo

• “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)

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeː.ti.ɣoː/

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo

   Synonym: krentenbaard

•   impetigo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• inpetīgō

impetō +‎ -īgō

• (Classical Latin) 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.

Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō. Doublet of impigem.

• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ti‧go

impetigo m (uncountable)

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

Borrowed from French impétigo, from Latin impetīgō.

impetigo n (uncountable)

1. impetigo

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈimpeciɡɔ]

impetigo n

1. (pathology) impetigo

• “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, 2024