symptom
/ˈsɪmptəm/SIMP-tuhm
/ˈsɪmptəm/SIMP-tuhm
Meaninga befalling
Common meaning: a sign of a disease
- symtogether
- ptomto fall; a mishapLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1215 · scan
‘together’ + ‘to fall’ → symptom
Journey through time
- Greekπίπτω; σύμπτωμα‘to fall’
- Latinsymptoma
- Frenchsympt
- Englishsymptom‘a sign of a disease’ · today
sym- also in: symbolsymbolicsympathysymphonysupersymmetry
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek πίπτω; σύμπτωμα ‘to fall; a mishap’.
Roots
- πίπτω; σύμπτωμα Greek “to fall; a mishap”
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