eczema

See also: eczéma and eczemă

English

Alternative forms

• eczma (uncommon)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă, 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/

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• 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, the word eczema refers to a specific kind of dermatitis, although the definitions of eczema and dermatitis are not universally standardized. For an explanation, see Dermatitis § Terminology on WikipediaWikipedia .

Derived terms

• antieczema
• atopic eczema
• eczemalike
• eczema madidans
• eczema rubrum
• eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome
• eczematic
• eczematization
• eczematoid
• eczematous
• eczemic
• housewife's eczema

Translations

acute or chronic inflammation of the skin

• Arabic: أَكْزِيمَا f (ʔakzīmā)
• Belarusian: экзэ́ма f (ekzéma)
• Bengali: কাউর (bn) (kaur), বিখাউজ (bn) (bikhauj), উকা (bn) (uka)
• Cebuano: yabon
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 濕疹 / 溼疹 / 湿疹 (sap¹ can²)

  Hakka: 濕疹 / 溼疹 / 湿疹 (sṳp-chṳ́n)

  Hokkien: 濕疹 / 溼疹 / 湿疹 (sip-chín), 爛癬 / 烂癣 (zh-min-nan) (nōa-sián), 濕癬 / 溼癬 / 湿癣 (sip-sián)

  Mandarin: 濕疹 / 溼疹 / 湿疹 (shīzhěn)

• Crimean Tatar: mayasıl
• Czech: ekzém m
• Danish: eksem n or c
• Dutch: eczeem (nl), eczema (nl)
• Esperanto: ekzemo
• Finnish: ekseema (fi), rohtuma (fi)
• French: eczéma (fr) m, exéma (fr) m
• Galician: eccema (gl) m
• German: Ekzem (de) n

  Ancient: ἔκζεμα n (ékzema)

• Hungarian: ekcéma (hu)
• Icelandic: exem n
• Ido: ekzemo (io)
• Indonesian: eksem (id)
• Ingrian: täitarha
• 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 (bîro)

• Malay: ekzema
• Malayalam: എക്സിമ (eksima)
• Maori: harehare, pāpaka, hare
• Norman: maladie d'la fontaine f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksem (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: eksem m or n

• Ottoman Turkish: مایاسیل (mayasıl)
• Polish: egzema f, wyprysk (pl) m
• Portuguese: eczema (pt) m
• Romanian: eczemă (ro) f
• Russian: экзе́ма (ru) f (ekzɛ́ma)
• Spanish: eczema m, eccema (es) m
• Swedish: eksem (sv)
• Tumbuka: cimasa class 7
• Turkish: egzama (tr), mayasıl (tr)
• Ukrainian: екзе́ма f (ekzéma)
• Volapük: käsem (vo)

References

• “eczema”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “eczema”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛɡ.zɛ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛɡ.d͡ze.ma]

Noun

eczema n (genitive eczematis); third declension

1. eczema

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	eczema	eczemata
genitive	eczematis	eczematum
dative	eczematī	eczematibus
accusative	eczema	eczemata
ablative	eczemate	eczematibus
vocative	eczema	eczemata

Descendants

• → English: eczema (learned)
• → Ukrainian: екзе́ма (ekzéma) (learned)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, 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
• Hyphenation: ec‧ze‧ma

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

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

Derived terms

• eczematoso

Further reading

• “eczema”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “eczema”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “eczema”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “eczema”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “eczema”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ekˈzema]

Noun

eczema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eczemă

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. alternative spelling of eccema

Further reading

• “eczema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024