The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσῠμφέρω“bring together”
- English todaysymphoria
From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.