Meaning

2 senses
  1. A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.

    The doctor told that his coughing and sneezing was the symptom of standing for too long in the rain.

    Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.

    Symptom

    симпто́мsimptóm, при́знакpríznak

    симпто́мsymptóm, озна́каoznáka

    (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

  2. (figuratively)A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

    Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.

    Symptom, Anzeichen

    при́знакpríznak, симпто́мsimptóm, знакznak

    озна́каoznáka, симпто́мsymptóm, знакznak

Examples

196 sentences
  1. What are the symptoms?

    Які симптоми?

    ruКакие симптомы?

    deWas sind die Symptome?

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  2. What symptoms do you have?

    Які у вас симптоми?

    ruКакие у тебя симптомы?

    deWas für Symptome haben Sie?

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  3. Don't you recognize the symptoms?

    Хіба ти не впізнаєш симптоми?

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  4. I don't have any symptoms.

    У мене немає жодних симптомів.

    ruУ меня нет никаких симптомов.

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  5. Do you have any other symptoms?

    deHaben Sie noch andere Symptome?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
something that indicates a disease or disorder:
figuratively: indicator of something:
Русский
By meaning 2
something that indicates a disease or disorder:
figuratively: indicator of something:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
something that indicates a disease or disorder:
figuratively: indicator of something:

Origin

From Middle English sinthoma, from Medieval Latin sinthoma, altered by Late Latin symptoma

From Middle English sinthoma, from Medieval Latin sinthoma, altered by Late Latin symptoma, 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”). See also syn-, -oma, -ome.

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