sympathia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sumpátheia, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sumpathḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) +‎ -ῐᾰ (-ia, “-y”, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sym.paˈtʰiː.a/, [s̠ʏmpäˈt̪ʰiːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim.paˈti.a/, [simpäˈt̪iːä]

Noun

sympathīa f (genitive sympathīae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. feeling in common, sympathy

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
  • French: sympathie
  • → Dutch: sympathie
  • → English: sympathy
  • → Polish: sympatia
    • → Russian: симпа́тия f (simpátija), сочу́вствие n inan (sočúvstvije) (calque)
• → 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.