Where does “vitiligo” come from?

vitiligo (Latin) comes from Latin vitium, from Proto-Indo-European wi-tio-, from Proto-Indo-European wei — guilt, vice, fault.

vitiligo (Latin): a skin disease, tetter

Definitions

  1. a skin disease, tetter

Ancestry of “vitiligo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, error, fault; vice; crime
2Proto-Indo-Europeanwi-tio-—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanweiguilt, vice, fault

Words derived from “vitiligo”

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