sympathia
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sym.paˈtʰiː.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sim.paˈti.a/,
Noun
sympathīa f (genitive sympathīae); first declension (Late Latin)
Inflection
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sympathīa | sympathīae |
| genitive | sympathīae | sympathīārum |
| dative | sympathīae | sympathīīs |
| accusative | sympathīam | sympathīās |
| ablative | sympathīā | sympathīīs |
| vocative | sympathīa | sympathīae |
Descendants
- → Middle French: sympathie
- → German: Sympathie
- → Italian: simpatia
- → Portuguese: simpatia
- → Spanish: simpatía
- → Swedish: sympati
References
- “sympathia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sympathia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.