giddiness vs vertigo what difference
what is difference between giddiness and vertigo
English
Etymology
giddy + -ness
Noun
giddiness (countable and uncountable, plural giddinesses)
- The state of being giddy.
Synonyms
- (for what is described in senses 1 and 2 of giddy) dizziness, vertigo
Translations
(for what is described in senses 1 and 2 of giddy)
Anagrams
- disdeigns
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜːtɪɡəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɝtɪɡoʊ/
Noun
vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
Synonyms
- dizziness
- giddiness
Derived terms
- vertiginous
Translations
Anagrams
- Gerovit
Czech
Noun
vertigo n
- vertigo
Synonyms
- závrať
Related terms
- See verš
Further reading
- vertigo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Latin
Etymology
From an earlier unattested *verticō, from vertex (“whirlwind, top”) + -ō, later reanalyzed as vertō (“to spin”) + -īgō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯erˈtiː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɛɾˈt̪iːɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /verˈti.ɡo/, [vɛrˈt̪iːɡɔ]
Noun
vertīgō f (genitive vertīginis); third declension
- gyration, giddiness, dizziness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- vertīginōsus
Descendants
- Catalan: vertigen
- → English: vertigo
- Spanish: vértigo
- French: vertige
- Galician: vertixe
- Italian: vertigine
- Portuguese: vertigem
References
- 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
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