passionate etymology

English word passionate comes from Latin passionare

Detailed word origin of passionate

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
passionare Latin (lat)
passionatus Malayalam (mal)
passionate English (eng) (obsolete) To express with great emotion.. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion. A passionate individual. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.. Fired with intense feeling.. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.