epidermis

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɛp.ɪˈdɜː.mɪs/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˌɛp.əˈdɝ.mɪs/
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• Australian: /ˌep.ɪˈdɜː.mɪs/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH2 P AH0 D ER1 M AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin epidermis, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδερμίς (epidermís), ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Equivalent to epi- + dermis.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بشرَة (bašara) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Bulgarian: епидермис (epidermis) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Catalan: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Chinese Mandarin: 表皮 (biǎopí) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Czech: pokožka — skin's outer layer in animals
• Dutch: opperhuid — skin's outer layer in animals
• Esperanto: epidermo — skin's outer layer in animals
• Finnish: orvaskesi — skin's outer layer in animals
• French: épiderme — skin's outer layer in animals
• Galician: epiderme — skin's outer layer in animals
• German: Oberhaut — skin's outer layer in animals
• German: Epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Greek: επιδερμίδα (epidermída) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Hungarian: epidermisz — skin's outer layer in animals
• Hungarian: felhám — skin's outer layer in animals
• Ido: epidermo — skin's outer layer in animals
• Italian: epidermide — skin's outer layer in animals
• Japanese: 表皮 (hyōhi) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Kazakh: эпидерма (épiderma) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Korean: 표피 (pyopi) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Latin: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Lithuanian: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Māori: kiritai — skin's outer layer in animals
• Māori: kiriwaho — skin's outer layer in animals
• Polish: naskórek — skin's outer layer in animals
• Portuguese: epiderme — skin's outer layer in animals
• Romanian: epidermă — skin's outer layer in animals
• Russian: эпиде́рма (epidérma) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Russian: эпиде́рмис (epidérmis) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Scottish Gaelic: cneas — skin's outer layer in animals
• Scottish Gaelic: far-chraiceann — skin's outer layer in animals
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀кожица — skin's outer layer in animals
• Serbo-Croatian: pòkožica — skin's outer layer in animals
• Spanish: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Swedish: överhud — skin's outer layer in animals
• Swedish: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Telugu: బహిశ్చర్మము (bahiścarmamu) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Telugu: బాహ్యచర్మము (bāhyacarmamu) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Thai: หนังกําพร้า (nạngkảphr̂ā) — skin's outer layer in animals
• Turkish: üst deri — skin's outer layer in animals
• Turkish: epiderm — skin's outer layer in animals
• Vietnamese: ngoại bì — skin's outer layer in animals
• Welsh: epidermis — skin's outer layer in animals
• Welsh: argroen — skin's outer layer in animals
• Welsh: uwchgroen — skin's outer layer in animals
• Czech: pokožka — plant's outer layer
• Esperanto: epidermo — plant's outer layer
• Finnish: epidermi — plant's outer layer
• Finnish: päällysketto — plant's outer layer
• German: Epidermis — plant's outer layer
• Greek: επιδερμίδα (epidermída) — plant's outer layer
• Hungarian: epidermisz — plant's outer layer
• Ido: epidermo — plant's outer layer
• Italian: epidermide — plant's outer layer
• Kazakh: өң (öñ) — plant's outer layer
• Māori: kiriwaho — plant's outer layer
• Polish: blaszka — plant's outer layer
• Romanian: epidermă — plant's outer layer
• Scottish Gaelic: cneas — plant's outer layer
• Tagalog: balat-ugat — plant's outer layer
• Tagalog: balatpuno — plant's outer layer
• Tagalog: balatdahon — plant's outer layer
• Turkish: epidermis — plant's outer layer