"symptom" in seven languages
Meaningsymptom
Spanish
síntoma
/ˈsintoma/
masc.learned
French
symptôme
/sɛ̃ptom/
masc.learned
Italian
sintomo
/ˈsintomo/
masc.learned
Portuguese
sintoma
/sĩˈtomɐ/
masc.learned
Romanian
simptom
/simpˈtom/
neut.borrowed · French symptôme
Catalan
símptoma
/ˈsimtumə/
masc.learned
English
symptom
/ˈsɪmptəm/
from Latin/French · Late Latin symptōma
English → ItaliansymptomsintomoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SYMPTŌMA‘occurrence, symptom (from Greek)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek neuter in -ma, so Spanish síntoma is masculine despite its -a (el síntoma, like el problema). Italian regularised it to -o; French keeps the p and marks the Greek long o with a circumflex.
English relatives: symptom, symptomatic
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In a sentence
- esLa fiebre es un síntoma frecuente.
- frLa fièvre est un symptôme fréquent.
- itLa febbre è un sintomo comune.
- ptA febre é um sintoma comum.
- roFebra este un simptom frecvent.
- caLa febre és un símptoma freqüent.
- enFever is a common symptom.