σύμπτωμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sýmp.tɔː.ma/ → /ˈsymp.to.ma/ → /ˈsimb.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 Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsymp.to.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsimb.to.ma/

Noun

σῠ́μπτωμᾰ • (súmptōma) 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
      • 460 BCE – 395 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)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῠ́μπτωμᾰ tò súmptōma	τὼ σῠμπτώμᾰτε tṑ sumptṓmate	τᾰ̀ σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰ tà sumptṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ σῠμπτώμᾰτος toû sumptṓmatos	τοῖν σῠμπτωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sumptōmátoin	τῶν σῠμπτωμᾰ́των tôn sumptōmátōn
Dative	τῷ σῠμπτώμᾰτῐ tôi sumptṓmati	τοῖν σῠμπτωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sumptōmátoin	τοῖς σῠμπτώμᾰσῐ / σῠμπτώμᾰσῐν toîs sumptṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ σῠ́μπτωμᾰ tò súmptōma	τὼ σῠμπτώμᾰτε tṑ sumptṓmate	τᾰ̀ σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰ tà sumptṓmata
Vocative	σῠ́μπτωμᾰ súmptōma	σῠμπτώμᾰτε sumptṓmate	σῠμπτώμᾰτᾰ sumptṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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

	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