to suffer together with someone else; to experience pain or hardship jointly.
From the prefix 'co-' (meaning together) combined with 'suffer' (from Latin sufferre, to bear or endure). This compound emerged in Middle English to describe shared suffering.
Medieval and religious texts used this word to describe communal suffering—like entire villages enduring famine together. It's a reminder that humans have always recognized suffering as something that can bond people through shared experience.
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