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English

symptomatically

From symptomatic + -ally.

A compound of symptomatic + -ally

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to fall’

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Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα ‘a symptom’

Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός ‘of or pertaining to a chance, casual’

New Latin symptomaticus

French symptomatique

English symptomatic

Today it means

adv In a symptomatic manner; diagnostically.

Sources

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