passion

From Middle English passion, borrowed from Old French passion (and in part from Old English passion), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb patior (“I suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe(i)- (“to hurt”), see also Old English fēond (“devil, enemy”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 (faian, “to blame”).

• enPR: păsh'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈpæʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰæʃən]

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• Rhymes: -æʃən

passion (countable and uncountable, plural passions)

1. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.

   We share a passion for books.

   • 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC‎:

     That was partly because of a swirling wind that made precision passing difficult and also a derby atmosphere where the emphasis seemed to be on passion rather than football.

2. Fervor, determination.
3. An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

   It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.

4. sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional

   We shared a night of passion.

5. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
6. A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
7. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

   a cardiac passion

   • Wyclif Bible (Rom. viii. 18)

     the passions of this time

8. (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action.
   • John Locke

     A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.

9. (obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
   • Francis Bacon

     mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter

10. (obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.

    […] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

11. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

    He will again be well: if much you note him,
    You shall offend him and extend his passion:

    • Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4.

• (fervor, determination): ardor, fire in the belly, zeal

passion (third-person singular simple present passions, present participle passioning, simple past and past participle passioned)

1. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
   • Shakespeare

     Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth.

2. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Keats to this entry?)

• “passion” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• Pasions, Spinosa, saposin

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑsːion/, [ˈpɑs̠ːio̞n]
• Hyphenation: pas‧si‧on

passion

1. Genitive singular form of passio.

From Middle French passion, from Old French passion, borrowed from Latin passiō, ultimately from patior. Cognate with patience.

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɔ̃/

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passion f (plural passions)

1. (countable and uncountable) passion

• compassion
• pâtir

• “passion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French passion, or in part from late Old English passio, passion (“Christ's passion”), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).

passion (plural passions)

1. passion, that which must be endured, suffering, pain; asf

   • Þe uerþe article belongeþ to his passion. — Ayenbite of Inwyt, c1340
   • Hij þat hated þe gloried hem in-myddes of þy passion. — Midland Prose Psalter, c1350
   • The passions of this tyme ben not euene worthi to the glorie to comynge. — Romans 8:18, Wycliffite Bible, c1384
   • He that felyth payne and passion Desyrith sore aftir alleggeaunce. — Life of Our Lady, c1450
   • Þer was ane vsurar þat lay in passions of dead. — Alphabet of Tales, c1450

• English: passion

From Old French passion.

passion f (plural passions)

1. passion

• French: passion

• passio

From Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).

passion f (nominative plural passione)

1. passion of Christ

   • ðaet Eghwilc messepriost gesinge fore Osuulfes sawle twa messan, twa fore Beornðryðe sawle; and aeghwilc diacon arede twa passione fore his sawle, twa for hire; — that Every mass-priest recites for Oswulf's soul two masses, two for Beornthryth's soul; and every deacon reads two passions for his soul. - Oswulf's Charters, c805

• Middle English: passion
  • English: passion

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", passion
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), passio

Borrowed from Latin passio, passionem.

passion f (oblique plural passions, nominative singular passion, nominative plural passions)

1. passion (suffering)
   1. (specifically, Christianity) the ordeal endured by Jesus in order to absolve humanity of sin

• Middle French: passion
  • French: passion

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (passion)
• passiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub