eczema

eczema

See also: eczéma and eczemă

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzema, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.sɪm.ə/, /ˈɛks.mə/, /ˈɛɡ.zɪm.ə/, /ˈɛɡz.mə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzi.mə/, /ˈɛɡ.zəm.ə/, /ˈɛk.səm.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛksɪmə, -ɛɡzɪmə, -iːmə

Noun

eczema (countable and uncountable, plural eczemata or eczemas)

1. (biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.
   1. (usually) Synonym of atopic dermatitis

      Hypernym: dermatitis

   2. (sometimes) Synonym of dermatitis

      Hypernym: dermatosis

Usage notes

Usually, eczema is defined as hyponymic to dermatitis, although the definitions, and thus the semantic relations between them, are not universally standardized; for an explanation, see Wikipedia at Dermatitis § Terminology.

Derived terms

• antieczema
• eczemalike
• eczematic
• eczematoid
• eczematous
• eczemic
• housewife's eczema

 

Translations

acute or chronic inflammation of the skin

Arabic: أَكْزِيمَا‎ f (ʾakzīmā) Bengali: কাউর (kaur), বিখাউজ (bikhauj), উকা (bn) (uka) Chinese: Cantonese: 溼疹 or 濕疹, 湿疹 (sap1 can2) Hakka: 溼疹 or 濕疹, 湿疹 (sṳp-chṳ́n) Mandarin: 溼疹／湿疹 (zh) or 濕疹／湿疹 (zh) (shīzhěn) Min Nan: 溼疹 or 濕疹 (zh-min-nan), 湿疹 (sip-chín), 爛癬 (zh-min-nan), 烂癣 (nōa-sián), 溼癬 or 濕癬, 湿癣 (sip-sián) Crimean Tatar: mayasıl Czech: ekzém m Danish: eksem n or c Dutch: eczeem (nl) Esperanto: ekzemo Finnish: ekseema (fi), rohtuma (fi) French: eczéma (fr) m, exéma (fr) m Galician: eccema m German: Ekzem (de) n Ancient: ἔκζεμα n (ékzema) Hungarian: ekcéma (hu) Icelandic: exem n Ido: ekzemo (io) Indonesian: eksem (id) Italian: eczema (it) m Jamaican Creole: fassy Japanese: 湿疹 (ja) (しっしん, shisshin) Korean: 습진(濕疹) (ko) (seupjin) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بیرۆ‎ (ku) (bîro) Malay: ekzema Maori: harehare, pāpaka, hare Norman: maladie d'la fontaine f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: eksem (no) m or n Nynorsk: eksem m or n Polish: egzema f, wyprysk (pl) m Portuguese: eczema (pt) m Romanian: eczemă (ro) f Russian: экзе́ма (ru) f (ekzéma) Spanish: eczema m, eccema (es) m Swedish: eksem (sv) Turkish: egzama (tr), mayasıl (tr) Volapük: käsem (vo)

References

• “eczema”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “eczema”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ekˈd͡zɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: ec‧zè‧ma

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemi)

1. eczema

Derived terms

• eczematoso

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.ze.ma/, [ˈɛɡd̪͡z̪ɛmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.d͡ze.ma/, [ˈɛɡd̪͡z̪emä]

Noun

eczema n (genitive eczematis); third declension

1. eczema

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eczema	eczemata
Genitive	eczematis	eczematum
Dative	eczematī	eczematibus
Accusative	eczema	eczemata
Ablative	eczemate	eczematibus
Vocative	eczema	eczemata

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eɡˈzẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eɡˈzẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eɡˈze.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛˈkze.mɐ/, /eˈkze.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. (dermatology, pathology) eczema (acute or chronic inflammation of the skin)

Derived terms

• eczematoso

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ekˈzema]

Noun

eczema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eczemă

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eɡˈθema/ [eɣ̞ˈθe.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /eɡˈsema/ [eɣ̞ˈse.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: ec‧ze‧ma

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. Alternative spelling of eccema

Further reading

• “eczema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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