eczema

See also: eczéma and eczemă

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema), from ἐκ (ek, “out of, forth from”) + ζέμα (zéma, “that which is boiled, decoction”), from ζέω (zéō, “to boil, to seethe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɪmə/, /ˈɛksɪmə/, /ˈɛksmə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɪmə/, /ɪɡˈzimə/

Noun

eczema (countable and uncountable, plural eczemata or eczemas)

1. 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.

Hypernyms

• dermatitis

Derived terms

• antieczema
• eczemalike
• eczematic
• eczematoid
• eczematous

 

Translations

acute or chronic inflammation of the skin

• Arabic: أَكْزِيمَا f (ʔakzīmā)
• Bengali: কাউর (kaur)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 溼疹／湿疹 (sap¹ can²) or 濕疹／湿疹 (sap¹ can²), 湿疹 (sap¹ can²)

  Hakka: 溼疹／湿疹 or 濕疹／湿疹, 湿疹 (sṳp-chṳ́n)

  Mandarin: 溼疹／湿疹 (zh) (shīzhěn) or 濕疹／湿疹 (zh) (shīzhěn), 湿疹 (zh) (shīzhěn)

  Min Nan: 溼疹／湿疹 or 濕疹／湿疹 (zh-min-nan), 湿疹 (sip-chín), 爛癬／烂癣 (zh-min-nan), 烂癣 (nōa-sián), 溼癬／湿癣 or 濕癬／湿癣, 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
• Hungarian: ekcéma (hu)
• Icelandic: exem n
• Ido: ekzemo (io)
• Indonesian: eksem (id)
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• Italian: eczema (it) m
• Japanese: 湿疹 (しっしん, shisshin)
• Korean: 습진 (ko) (seupjin) (濕疹 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• 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
• Russian: экзе́ма (ru) f (ekzéma)
• Spanish: eczema m, eccema (es) m
• Swedish: eksem (sv)
• Turkish: egzama (tr), mayasıl (tr)
• Volapük: käsem (vo)

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemi)

1. eczema

Derived terms

• eczematoso

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡ.ze.ma/, [ˈɛɡd̪͡z̪ɛmä]
• (modern Italianate 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

From Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈzemɐ/
• IPA^(key): /iɡˈzɛmɐ/

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

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

Derived terms

• eczematoso

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eɡˈθema/ [eɣ̞ˈθe.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /eɡˈsema/ [eɣ̞ˈse.ma]

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. Alternative spelling of eccema