passionate
English
/ˈpæʃənɪt/
adj
Definitions
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- Fired with intense feeling.
- (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *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
- dispassionate English
- dispassionately English
- dispassionateness English
- impassionate English
- impassionately English
- impassive English
- nonpassionate English
- overpassionate English
- passionately English
- passionateness English
- passive English
- passivity English
- patience English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- undispassionate English
- unpassionate English
- unpassionately English
- unpassionateness English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- passive
- patience
- passivity
- impassive
- repentant
- repentance
- penitently
- repentantly
- penitential
- unpassionate
- impassionate
- passionately
- nonpassionate
- dispassionate
- penitentially
- impassionately
- overpassionate
- unpassionately
- passionateness
- dispassionately
- undispassionate
- unpassionateness
- dispassionateness