simtom

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsimtom/ [ˈsim.t̪ɔm]
• Rhymes: -imtom
• Syllabification: sim‧tom

Noun

simtom (plural simtom-simtom)

1. (medicine) symptom

Related terms

• simtomatis

Further reading

• “simtom”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016