The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσυμπτωματικός“of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”
- New Latin · derived fromsymptomaticus
- French · borrowed fromsymptomatique
- English todaysymptomatic
Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.