Where does “passé” come from?
Passé comes from French passé, the past participle of French passer, derived from Latin passus, ultimately from Latin pati meaning to suffer or endure.
passé (English): Dated; out of style; old-fashioned; Past one's...
Definitions
- Dated; out of style; old-fashioned; Past one's...
Ancestry of “passé”, step by step
passé traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French passé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | passé | past tense; past; last |
| 2 | French | passer | to go past; to cross; to pass |
| 3 | Middle French | passer | to pass; to go by |
| 4 | Old French | passer | to pass; to pass by |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 6 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 7 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |