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There is a brief explanation here. It looks like the term was coined by Weyl, and was a result of modifying the Latin Greek root "comp" from "complex" to the equivalent Latin root "symp". This is a pretty obscure way to coin a word if you ask me!

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There is a brief explanation here. It looks like the term was coined by Weyl, and was a result of modifying the Latin root "comp" from "complex" to the equivalent Latin root "symp". This is a pretty obscure way to coin a word if you ask me!