vertigo

Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/

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vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)

1. A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
2. A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
3. The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

• dizziness
• giddiness

• vertiginous

• Gerovit

vertigo n

1. vertigo

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• See verš

• vertigo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

From an earlier unattested *verticō, from vertex (“whirlwind, top”) +‎ -ō, later reanalyzed as vertō (“to spin”) +‎ -īgō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈtiː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɛrˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈti.ɡo/, [verˈt̪iːɡo]

vertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension

1. gyration, giddiness, dizziness

Third-declension noun.

• vertīginōsus

• Catalan: vertigen
• → English: vertigo
• Spanish: vértigo
• French: vertige
• Italian: vertigine
• Portuguese: vertigem
  • → Galician: vertixe

• “vertigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vertigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vertigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette