Noun: symptom
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | symptom |
| Pl. | symptom; symptomer |
Definite
| Sg. | symptomet |
| Pl. | symptoma; symptomene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like symptom
antiklimaks,
symbol,
system,
sekret,
mikrosekund,
sovjet,
sirkus,
signal,
skjørt,
godhetstyranni,
karbohydrat,
vendepunkt,
stekebrett,
gatemarked,
skafferi,
kjernekraftverk,
subkontinent,
butikkvindu,
pergament,
abonnement, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “chance, casualty; symptom”), from συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”) (with the suffix, -μα (-ma), from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥), from both συν- (sun-, “with, together”), from σύν (sún, “beside, with”), from Proto-Indo-European *som-, from *sem- (“together, one”), or possibly from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”), from *ḱe + and from πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *pípth₂-, from *peth₂- (“to spread out, fly”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σύμπτωμα'.
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