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"passion" in seven languages

Meaningpassion

Spanish

pasión

/paˈsjon/

fem.learned

French

passion

/pasjɔ̃/

fem.learned

Italian

passione

/pasˈsjone/

fem.learned

Portuguese

paixão

/pajˈʃɐ̃w/

fem.inherited

Spoken Portuguese turned -SSIŌNEM into -ixão; compare learned passional.

Romanian

pasiune

/pasiˈune/

fem.learned

Catalan

passió

/pəsiˈo/

fem.learned

English

passion

/ˈpæʃən/

from Latin/French · Old French passion, Latin PASSIŌNEM

English → ItalianpassionpassioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PASSIŌNEM‘suffering (from PATĪ 'to suffer, endure')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Passion first meant 'suffering', as in the Passion of Christ; strong feeling is something you undergo. Patient and passive come from the same verb PATĪ.

English relatives: passive, patient, compassion

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In a sentence

  • esLa música es su gran pasión.
  • frLa musique est sa grande passion.
  • itLa musica è la sua grande passione.
  • ptA música é a grande paixão dele.
  • roMuzica e marea lui pasiune.
  • caLa música és la seva gran passió.
  • enMusic is his great passion.

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