different between colophon vs symptom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “peak or finishing touch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l?f?n/

Noun

colophon (plural colophons)

1. In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving information on his exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, his own name.
2. (printing) A printer's or publisher's identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end of a book, or the same appearing on the spine or dust-jacket. It generally contains factual information about the book, especially about its production, and includes details about typographic style, the fonts used, the paper used, and perhaps the binding method of the book. Also used in a similar fashion for newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.
3. (Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.
4. (obsolete) A finishing stroke or crowning touch.
   • 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi, page 427

     He comes to the creation of man, and makes him the Colophon, or conclusion of all things else.

Translations

See also

• coronis
• vignette

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “peak or finishing touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?.f??/

Noun

colophon m (plural colophons)

1. colophon, final notice on manuscript.
2. colophon, final notice about printer, editor, paper, etc., with bibliophilic information.

Further reading

• “colophon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n)

Noun

c?l?ph?n m (genitive c?l?ph?nis); third declension

1. summit, peak

Declension

Third-declension noun.

See also

• Colophon

References

• colophon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colophon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• colophon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m(p)t?m/
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

Antonyms

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

• symptomatology
• symptomless

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

Translations

Further reading

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Etymology

From German Symptom from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?mptom]

Noun

symptom m

1. symptom

Declension

Related terms

• symptomatický

References

Danish

Noun

symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)

1. symptom

Declension

Derived terms

• symptomfri

Related terms

• symptomatisk

References

• “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp?tu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)

1. symptom

Derived terms

• abstinenssymptom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)

1. symptom

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.pt?m/

Noun

symptom m inan

1. symptom

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

In the Swedish language since 1730. From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”).

Noun

symptom n

1. Dated form of symtom (“symptom”).