sympathie
See also: Sympathie
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathia, from Ancient Greek συμπάθεια (sumpátheia), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sympathie f (plural sympathieën)
Derived terms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sympathie f (plural sympathies)
- sympathy
- Antonym: antipathie
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: sempati
Further reading edit
- “sympathie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sympathīa.
Noun edit
sympathie f (plural sympathies)
- sympathy (feeling of mutual like)
- harmony
- 1590, Nicolaes de Blocq, La difference qvil y a entre les divinations licites & illicites, pour iuger des changemens & ruines des republiques, page 64:
- […] il y a quelques scavans personages qui tiennent pour impossible ce qu'on a volu faire croire à la sympathie entre les causes celestes & choses terrestres
- […] there are some learned people who believe it is impossible, that which we have been told to believe about the harmony between celestial causes and earthly matters
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sympathie, supplement)
- Etymology and history of “sympathie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.