σύμπτωμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “happen, occur”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sýmp.tɔː.ma/ → /ˈsymp.to.ma/ → /ˈsimp.to.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sýmp.tɔː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsymp.to.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsymp.to.ma/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /ˈsymp.to.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsimp.to.ma/

Noun

σῠ́μπτωμᾰ • (sŭ́mptōmă) n (genitive σῠμπτώμᾰτος); third declension

1. anything that has befallen one, a chance, casualty
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.9.32
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 2.8.5 (Compare Politics 2.12.5)
   1. often in a bad sense, mishap
      • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.36
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.4.5
2. (of diseases) symptom
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 364C
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De Causis et Signis Diuturnorum Morborum I.3
3. a falling in, collapse
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 60.33

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ σῠ́μπτωμᾰ; τοῦ σῠμπτώμᾰτος (Attic)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	τὸ σῠ́μπτωμᾰtò sŭ́mptōmă	τὼ σῠμπτώμᾰτεtṑ sŭmptṓmăte	τᾰ̀ σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰtằ sŭmptṓmătă
genitive	τοῦ σῠμπτώμᾰτοςtoû sŭmptṓmătos	τοῖν σῠμπτωμᾰ́τοινtoîn sŭmptōmắtoin	τῶν σῠμπτωμᾰ́τωνtôn sŭmptōmắtōn
dative	τῷ σῠμπτώμᾰτῐtōî sŭmptṓmătĭ	τοῖν σῠμπτωμᾰ́τοινtoîn sŭmptōmắtoin	τοῖς σῠμπτώμᾰσῐ / σῠμπτώμᾰσῐνtoîs sŭmptṓmăsĭ(n)
accusative	τὸ σῠ́μπτωμᾰtò sŭ́mptōmă	τὼ σῠμπτώμᾰτεtṑ sŭmptṓmăte	τᾰ̀ σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰtằ sŭmptṓmătă
vocative	σῠ́μπτωμᾰsŭ́mptōmă	σῠμπτώμᾰτεsŭmptṓmăte	σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰsŭmptṓmătă

• This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: symptōma

Further reading

• “σύμπτωμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σύμπτωμα” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accident idem, page 6.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma).

Noun

σύμπτωμα • (sýmptoma) n (plural συμπτώματα)

1. symptom
2. (figuratively) sign

Declension

Declension of σύμπτωμα

	singular	plural
nominative	σύμπτωμα (sýmptoma)	συμπτώματα (symptómata)
genitive	συμπτώματος (symptómatos)	συμπτωμάτων (symptomáton)
accusative	σύμπτωμα (sýmptoma)	συμπτώματα (symptómata)
vocative	σύμπτωμα (sýmptoma)	συμπτώματα (symptómata)

Further reading

• σύμπτωμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el