The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔκζεμᾰ“cutaneous eruption”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromeczema
- English todayeczema
Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) + -μᾰ (-mă, nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.