passion
English
/ˈpæʃən/, [ˈpʰæʃən]
noun
Definitions
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
- Fervor, determination.
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
- sexual Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
- (Christianity) The suffering of Jesus lead leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
- (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
- (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
- (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
- (obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
- (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English passion derived from Old French passion inherited from Old English passion derived from Latin passio (suffering, passion) derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (hurt, hate), *peh₁- (hurt, hate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₁-
Gloss
hurt, hate
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
憎
Emoji
🤕
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Care Sunday English
- Passionist English
- Passiontide English
- dispassion English
- empassion English
- impassion English
- impassionable English
- impassioned English
- impassive English
- mispassion English
- outpassion English
- passion-ridden English
- passional English
- passionary English
- passionate English
- passionful English
- passionless English
- passionlessly English
- passionlessness English
- passive English
- passivity English
- patience English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- ridden English
- unpassion English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- passio, passionem Latin
- passiō Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- patior Latin
- Passion German
- passion French
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- *fēaną Proto-Germanic
- pasja Polish
- feondlic Old English
- feondræden Old English
- feondscipe Old English
- fēond Old English
- passion Old English
- passion, passio Old English
- feend Middle English
- fond Middle English
- passion Middle English
- passion Old French
- passie Middle Dutch
- passion Middle French
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- pasheni Swahili
- ridden
- passive
- patience
- passivity
- passional
- impassive
- empassion
- repentant
- impassion
- unpassion
- outpassion
- Passionist
- repentance
- passionful
- penitently
- mispassion
- passionate
- passionary
- dispassion
- passionless
- repentantly
- Passiontide
- Care Sunday
- impassioned
- penitential
- impassionable
- penitentially
- passionlessly
- passion-ridden
- passionlessness