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vitiligo

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˌvɪtɪˈlaɪɡəʊ/
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  • rhymes with -aɪɡəʊ
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1

noun

Meaning 1

The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: dermatology, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: leucoderma

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Alphos, a form of leprosy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: skin disease, disease of the skin, skin disorder

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vitilīgō.

Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بُهَاق (buhāq) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Azerbaijani: ala — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Basque: bitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Bengali: শ্বেতী রোগ (śeti rōg) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Bulgarian: витилиго (vitiligo) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Catalan: vitiligen — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白癜風 /白癜风 (báidiànfēng) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Finnish: valkopälvi — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • French: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • German: Vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • German: Weißfleckenkrankheit — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Greek: λεύκη (léfki) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Hebrew: בַּהֶרֶת (bahéret) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Hindi: सफ़ेद दाग़ (safed dāġ) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Hindi: श्वित्र (śvitra) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Hungarian: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Italian: vitiligine — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Japanese: 白斑 (hakuhan) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Japanese: 白癜 (shironamazu) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Kannada: ತೊನ್ನು (tonnu) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Kazakh: ақтаңдақ (aqtañdaq) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Korean: 백납병 (baengnapbyeong) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Korean: 백반 (baekban) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Central Kurdish: بەڵەکی (bellekî) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Latin: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Malayalam: വെള്ളപ്പാണ്ട് (veḷḷappāṇṭŭ) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Māori: kirihoko — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Persian: پیسی (pisi) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Polish: bielactwo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Portuguese: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Romanian: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Russian: витили́го (vitilígo) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Spanish: vitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Spanish: vitíligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Tocharian B: świtär — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Turkish: alaca hastalığı — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Turkish: baras — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Turkish: abraş — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Ukrainian: вітилі́го (vitylího) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Uyghur: بەرەس (beres) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Uyghur: ئاق كېسەل (aq kësel) — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Vietnamese: bạch biến — patchy loss of skin pigmentation
  • Welsh: fitiligo — patchy loss of skin pigmentation