different between syndrome vs palindrome

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (sundrom?, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from ????????? (súndromos, “running together”), from ???- (sun-, “with”) + ?????? (drómos, “running, course”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nd???m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?o?m/, /?s?nd??m/
• Hyphenation: syn?drome

Noun

syndrome (plural syndromes)

1. (pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.

   Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome
2. Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.

   not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome

Derived terms

Translations

References

• syndrome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• syndrome at OneLook Dictionary Search
• syndrome in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.d?om/

Noun

syndrome m (plural syndromes)

1. syndrome

Derived terms

References

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

Interlingua

Noun

syndrome (plural syndromes)

1. syndrome

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos, “running back again”), from ????? (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + ?????? (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd???m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd?o?m/

Noun

palindrome (plural palindromes)

1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

   “Rise to vote sir” is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome.

   Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.

2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

Derived terms

• (genetics): massive palindrome

Translations

Coordinate terms

• aibohphobia
• anagram
• semordnilap

Further reading

• palindrome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pramindole

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.l??.d??m/

Noun

palindrome m (plural palindromes)

1. palindrome

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

palindrome f

1. feminine plural of palindromo