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means An expression of sympathy offered to someone who has suffered a loss or misfortune.

from From Latin com- ('together') plus dolere ('to grieve, suffer pain') — the same root that gives us 'dolor' and 'doleful.' To condole, literally, is to suffer alongside someone. The word entered English in the 1500s via French, already carrying that sense of shared ache, though in practice it has drifted toward the polite, ritual gesture rather than the raw shared suffering it once named.