Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sýmptoma/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sý̃ftoma/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /síftoma/

Noun

σύμπτωμα • ‎(súmptōma) n ‎(genitive συμπτώματος); third declension

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

Inflection

References

• 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accident idem, page 6.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

σύμπτωμα • ‎(sýmptoma) n ‎(plural συμπτώματα)

1. symptom
2. (figuratively) sign

Declension