συμπάθεια
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σῠμπᾰθῐ́ᾱ (sumpathíā)
Etymology
From σῠμπᾰθής (sumpathḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia, “-y”, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sym.pá.tʰeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /symˈpa.tʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /symˈpa.θi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /symˈpa.θi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /simˈba.θi.a/
Noun
σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ • (sumpátheia) f (genitive σῠμπᾰθείᾱς); first declension
- fellow feeling, sympathy
- (philosophy) affection, affinity
- (astronomy) affinity, concord of heavenly bodies
- (grammar) analogy
- (medicine) sympathetic affection of the body
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ hē sumpátheia |
τὼ σῠμπᾰθείᾱ tṑ sumpatheíā |
αἱ σῠμπᾰ́θειαι hai sumpátheiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠμπᾰθείᾱς tês sumpatheíās |
τοῖν σῠμπᾰθείαιν toîn sumpatheíain |
τῶν σῠμπᾰθειῶν tôn sumpatheiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠμπᾰθείᾳ têi sumpatheíāi |
τοῖν σῠμπᾰθείαιν toîn sumpatheíain |
ταῖς σῠμπᾰθείαις taîs sumpatheíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰν tḕn sumpátheian |
τὼ σῠμπᾰθείᾱ tṑ sumpatheíā |
τᾱ̀ς σῠμπᾰθείᾱς tā̀s sumpatheíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ sumpátheia |
σῠμπᾰθείᾱ sumpatheíā |
σῠμπᾰ́θειαι sumpátheiai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- σῠμπᾰθέω (sumpathéō, verb)
- σῠμπᾰ́θησῐς (sumpáthēsis, noun)
Descendants
Descendants of συμπάθεια in other languages
- → Dutch: sympathie
- → Finnish: sympatia
- → German: Sympathie
- Greek: συμπάθεια (sympátheia)
- → Latin: sympathīa
- → Italian: simpatia
- → Polish: sympatia
- → Portuguese: simpatia
- → Russian: симпа́тия f (simpátija), сочу́вствие n inan (sočúvstvije) (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian: simpatija
- → Spanish: simpatía
- → Swedish: sympati
References
- “συμπάθεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- συμπάθεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Noun
συμπάθεια • (sympátheia) f (plural συμπάθειες)
- fellow feeling, sympathy
Declension
declension of συμπάθεια
| case \ number | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | συμπάθεια • | συμπάθειες • |
| genitive | συμπάθειας • | συμπαθειών • |
| accusative | συμπάθεια • | συμπάθειες • |
| vocative | συμπάθεια • | συμπάθειες • |
Antonyms
- αντιπάθεια (antipátheia)
Related terms
- συμπαθητικός (sympathitikós, “sympathetic”)
- συμπαθώ (sympathó, “to sympathise”)
- συμπάσχω (sympáscho, “to empathise”)