/ ˈsɪmptəm; NAmE / noun
1.
a change in your body or mind that shows that you are not healthy :
flu symptoms
Look out for symptoms of depression.
Symptoms include a headache and sore throat.
2.
a sign that sth exists, especially sth bad
SYN indication :
The rise in inflation was just one symptom of the poor state of the economy.
➡ note at sign
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English synthoma , from medieval Latin , based on Greek sumptōma chance, symptom, from sumpiptein happen; later influenced by French symptome .