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, 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
• eczematic
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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 (ékzema).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

Descendants

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

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
• Hyphenation: ec‧ze‧ma

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

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

Derived terms

• eczematoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ekˈzema]

Noun

eczema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eczemă

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