symptom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sign of an illness that a person feels or notices, such as pain or a fever.

   A high fever is a common symptom of the flu.

2. 2
   noun

   A sign that something, often something bad, exists or is happening.

   Rising prices are a symptom of a struggling economy.

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).

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