The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ“sympathy”
- Spanish · borrowed fromsimpático“nice, likeable”
- Italian · borrowed fromsimpatico
- English todaysimpatico
Borrowed from Italian simpatico or Spanish simpático (“nice, likeable”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “sympathy”, literally “suffering together”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ all →
sympathy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.