lotion

See also: Lotion

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin lōtiōnembor.

Middle English locion

English lotion

Inherited from Middle English locion, borrowed from Latin lōtiōnem. See lave. Doublet of lavation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊʃən/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃən

Noun

lotion (usually uncountable, plural lotions)

1. A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.

   sun-tan lotion

2. (archaic) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of beautification.

Synonyms

• lavatory

Derived terms

• body lotion
• commotion lotion
• hand lotion
• lotional
• lotiony
• love lotion
• motion lotion
• shaving lotion
• suntan lotion

Descendants

• → Malay: losen
• → Swahili: losheni

Translations

ointment that one rubs on the skin

• Albanian: locion m
• Arabic: غَاسُول m (ḡāsūl), غَسُول m (ḡasūl)
• Armenian: լոսյոն (hy) (losyon)
• Azerbaijani: losyon
• Belarusian: ласьён m (lasʹjón)
• Bulgarian: лосио́н m (losión)
• Catalan: loció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗劑 / 洗剂 (zh) (xǐjì), 潤膚露 / 润肤露 (zh) (rùnfūlù), 潤膚乳 / 润肤乳 (zh) (rùnfūrǔ), 藥水 / 药水 (zh) (yàoshuǐ) (medical), 乳液 (zh) (rǔyè, rǔyì)

• Czech: pleťová voda f, pleťové mléko n
• Dutch: lotion (nl) m or f
• Finnish: voide (fi), lotion (fi)
• French: lotion (fr) f
• Galician: loción (gl) f
• Georgian: ლოსიონი (losioni)
• German: Lotion (de) f
• Greek: λοσιόν (el) n (losión)
• Gujarati: લોશન n (lośan)
• Hindi: लोशन (hi) m (lośan)
• Hungarian: arcvíz (hu)
• Ido: locionajo (io)
• Indonesian: losion (id), calir (id)
• Italian: lozione (it) f
• Japanese: ローション (ja) (rōshon), 化粧水 (ja) (keshōsui)
• Korean: 로션 (rosyeon)
• Latvian: losjons m
• Lithuanian: losjonas m
• Macedonian: лосио́н m (losión)
• Malay: losen (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore), losion (Riau and Sumatra)
• Māori: hinu pani
• Mongolian: лосьон (mn) (losʹon)
• Navajo: bee ádíltłahí
• Persian: لوسیون (fa) (losyon)
• Piedmontese: lossion f
• Polish: mleczko kosmetyczne n, lotion (pl) m
• Portuguese: loção (pt) f
• Romanian: loțiune (ro) f
• Russian: лосьо́н (ru) m (losʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лосѝо̄н m

  Latin: losìōn (sh) m

• Slovak: pleťová voda f (face lotion), telové mlieko n (body lotion)
• Slovene: losjon m
• Spanish: loción (es) f, crema (es) f
• Swahili: losheni
• Turkish: losyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: лосьйо́н m (losʹjón)
• Uzbek: losyon
• Yiddish: שמירעכץ n (shmirekhts), הויטשמירעכץ n (hoytshmirekhts)

See also

• cream (generally thicker than a lotion)

Verb

lotion (third-person singular simple present lotions, present participle lotioning, simple past and past participle lotioned)

1. (transitive) To cover or treat with a lotion.

   Synonym: lotion up

   • 2005, Ryan Phillips, Fall from Grace, page 52:

     Grace lotions her arms and legs and joins him in the large walk-in closet where they change out of their clothes and into their pajamas—loose-fitting cotton bottoms for Mike and a lace-trimmed baby doll nightie for Grace.

   • 2011, Jeanne Starr Gater, Bring Back Summertime, page 89:

     I would finish my daily ranging session by lotioning his legs, and lotioning and rubbing his feet.

Further reading

• “lotion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “lotion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lootin', otolin

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lotiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

lotion f (plural lotions)

1. lotion

Further reading

• “lotion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

lotion c

1. lotion

   Smörj in mig med lotion

   Put lotion on me

Declension

Declension of lotion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lotion	lotions
	definite	lotionen	lotionens
plural	indefinite	lotioner	lotioners
	definite	lotionerna	lotionernas

Derived terms

• bodylotion
• hudlotion

See also

• fuktkräm (“moisturizing cream”)

References

• “lotion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “lotion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)