Dictionary

lentigo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /lɛnˈtaɪɡəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
   • […] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features […] 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, The Olympia Press:

Forms

Hyponyms

freckle

Relateds

lentiginose · lentiginous