'Symptom' is Greek for 'a falling-together' — something that befalls you alongside a disease.
A physical or mental feature regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly one apparent to the patient.
From Late Latin symptōma, from Greek symptōma (a happening, accident, disease symptom), from sympiptein (to fall together, happen to, befall), a compound of syn- (together, with) and piptein (to fall). The prefix syn- derives from the PIE root *ḱom- (together, with), which also produced Latin com-/con- (together — hence English combine, commit, connect, congress), Old Irish com- (with), and Welsh cyf- (together). The verb piptein comes from the PIE root *pet- (to rush, fly, fall), an extraordinarily productive root that yielded Latin petere (to seek, attack, rush at — hence English compete, petition, repeat, appetite, impetus), Latin penna (feather — hence English pen, pennant), Greek pteron (wing — hence English helicopter, pterodactyl), Greek potamos (river — hence English
'Symptom' and 'asymptote' share the same Greek root 'píptein' (to fall). A symptom is 'a falling-together' — something that co-occurs with disease. An asymptote is 'not-falling-together' — a line that approaches a curve but never meets it. Medicine and mathematics named opposite concepts from the same Greek verb