Where does “sympathetic” come from?
I appreciate the detailed instructions, but I notice there's a significant problem: the etymological chain provided doesn't support the headword "sympathetic" at all. The chain traces suffixes (-y, -ie, -ia, -ivus, -kos) but includes entries like "pimp" and "sis" that have no connection to "sympathetic." To write an accurate one-sentence etymology for "sympathetic," I would need the correct chain showing how it derives from Greek *sympathēs* (from *syn-* "together" + *patheia* "feeling") through Middle French and into English. Could you provide the correct etymological chain for "sympathetic," or did you mean to request an etymology for a different word that matches the chain you've given?
sympathetic (English): of, related to, showing, or characterized by...
Definitions
- of, related to, showing, or characterized by...
Ancestry of “sympathetic”, step by step
sympathetic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
Words derived from “sympathetic”
- sympathetically
- unsympathetic
- parasympathetic
- unsympathetically
- sympathetical
- oculosympathetic
- parasympathetically
- vagosympathetic
- nonsympathetic
- orthosympathetic
- antisympathetic
- vestibulosympathetic
- sympitar
- sympaattinen
- parasympatheticolytic
- sympathecolytic
- sympatheticolytic
- sympathetolytic
- cardiosympathetic
- neurosympathetic
- oversympathetic
- perisympathetic
- presympathetic
- somatosympathetic