Eczema - Wiktionary

See also: eczéma and eczemă

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:eczemaWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• eczma (uncommon)

Etymology

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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

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• (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

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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

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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

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

Translations

[edit] 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 Old High German: 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) Māori: harehare, pāpaka, hare Norman: maladie d'la fontaine f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: eksem (no) m or n Nynorsk: eksem m or n Polish: egzema (pl) 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) Ottoman Turkish: مایاسیل (mayasıl) Ukrainian: екзе́ма f (ekzéma) Volapük: käsem (vo)

References

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

Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:eczemaWikipedia it

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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eczema m (plural eczemi)

1. eczema

Derived terms

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• eczematoso

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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eczema n (genitive eczematis); third declension

1. eczema

Declension

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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

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμα (ékzema).

Pronunciation

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• (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

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eczema m (plural eczemas)

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

Derived terms

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• eczematoso

Further reading

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• “eczema”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “eczema”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “eczema”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “eczema”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “eczema”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): [ekˈzema]

Noun

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eczema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eczemă

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:eczemaWikipedia es

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /eɡˈθema/ [eɣ̞ˈθe.ma] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA(key): /eɡˈsema/ [eɣ̞ˈse.ma] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -ema
• IPA(key): /ekˈtsema/ [ekˈt̪se.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: ec‧ze‧ma

Noun

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eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. alternative form of eccema

Derived terms

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• eczematoso

Further reading

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• “eczema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025