FromMiddle English locion , borrowed fromLatin lōtiō, lōtiōnem ( “ a washing ” ) , fromlavō ( “ to wash ” ) ; seelave .Doublet oflavation .
lotion (usuallyuncountable ,plural lotions )
A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.sun-tanlotion
( archaic ) Awashing , especially of the skin for the purpose ofbeautification .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 ) Maori: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 Roman: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 )
cream ( generally thicker than a lotion ) lotion (third-person singular simple present lotions ,present participle lotioning ,simple past and past participle lotioned )
( transitive ) To cover or treat with a lotion.Synonym: lotion up 2005 , Ryan Phillips,Fall from Grace , page52 :Gracelotions 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 , page89 :I would finish my daily ranging session bylotioning his legs, and lotioning and rubbing his feet.
“lotion ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC . William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “lotion ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.:The Century Co. ,→OCLC .Borrowed fromLatin lotiōnem .
lotion f (plural lotions )
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