Where does “passionless” come from?
Passionless derives from Middle English -les and Old English -lēas, suffixes attached to passion, which comes from Latin passio (suffering), from passus (endured), the past participle of patior (to suffer), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pe(i)-.
passionless (English): Lacking in passion
Ancestry of “passionless”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -less | Lacking ; without . Added usually to a noun to... |
| 2 | Middle English | -les | Lacking ; without |
| 3 | Turkish | -le | with, shortened form of ile; by, shortened form... |
| 4 | Turkish | ile | with; and |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | ایله | — |
| 6 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اِیلَه | — |
| 7 | Proto-Turkic | bile | with, together, also |
Words derived from “passionless”