vertige
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vertīginem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvertige m (plural vertiges)
- dizziness, vertigo
- 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:
- Le malade prétend avoir, étant jeune homme, souffert d’accès de vertige qui duraient plusieurs secondes et pendant lesquels il avait comme le sentiment que tout son être se désagrégeait.
- The patient claims that, as a young man, he suffered from bouts of dizziness which lasted several seconds, during which he felt like his whole being was disintegrating.
Further reading
edit- “vertige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.