sympathia

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.paˈt̪iː.a]

Noun

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

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.