different between eczema vs scabies

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ékzema), from ?? (ek, “out of, forth from”) + ???? (zéma, “that which is boiled, decoction”), from ??? (zé?, “to boil, to seethe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ks.m?/, /???z.m?/, /??k.s?.m?/, /???.z?.m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.z?.m?/, /??k.s?.m?/, /??.?zi?.m?/
• Hyphenation: ec?zem?a, ecze?ma, ec?ze?ma

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

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ékzema).

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemi)

1. eczema

Derived terms

• eczematoso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?.ze.ma/, [???d??z??mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e?.d?ze.ma/, [???d??z??m?]

Noun

eczema n (genitive eczematis); third declension

1. eczema

Declension

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ékzema).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e??zem?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i??z?m?/

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

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

Derived terms

• eczematoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ek?zema]

Noun

eczema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eczem?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /e???ema/, [e????e.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /e??sema/, [e???se.ma]

Noun

eczema m (plural eczemas)

1. Alternative spelling of eccema

English

Etymology

From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabi?s (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scab? (“scratch, scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skei.biz/
• Rhymes: -e?biz

Noun

scabies (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.

Related terms

• scab
• scabrous

Translations

See also

• mange

Anagrams

• abscise, ecbasis

Latin

Etymology

From scab? (“scratch, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.e?s/, [?s?käbie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.es/, [?sk??bi?s]

Noun

scabi?s f (genitive scabi??); fifth declension

1. roughness, scurf
2. mildew
3. scab, mange, itch
4. (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• scabidus
• scabiola
• scabi?sus
• scabit?d?

Related terms

• scaber
• scab?
• scobis

Descendants

• Aromanian: zgaibã
• English: scabies
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: scabie, zgaib?

References

• scabies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scabies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette