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    What's the origin of the word "passion?"

    Particularly as the root of "compassion."

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    Origin:
    1125–75; Middle English (< Old French ) < Medieval Latin passi?n- (stem of passi? ) Christ's sufferings on the cross, any of the Biblical accounts of these (> late Old English passi?n ), special use of Late Latin passi? suffering, submission, derivative of Latin passus, past participle of pat? to suffer.


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