passionpassion

Passion comes from Middle English passioun, from Old French passion, from Latin passiō ‘suffering’, from patior ‘to suffer’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₁-¹‘to hurt’reconstructed
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatior¹‘to suffer’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpassus¹‘suffered’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpassiō¹‘suffering’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400passion¹
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500passioun¹‘suffering; passion’
7. Englishearliest quotation 1543passion¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English passion
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1543, Henry VIII of England, The Nynthe Article. The Holy Catholike Churche.: “Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in…”.