# passionate
## English
### Pronunciation

* (adjective, noun) IPA: /ˈpæʃənɪt/, /ˈpæʃənət/
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* Hyphenation: pas‧sion‧ate
* (verb) IPA: /ˈpæʃəneɪt/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, perfect past participle of passiono (“to be affected with passion”). Equivalent to passion +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.

#### Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)
* Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
    Mandy is a passionate lover.
* Fired with intense feeling.
** 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
    Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
* (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
** c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 544:She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
** c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 124:Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

##### Synonyms

* (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid

##### Derived terms

* passionate friendship

##### Related terms

* passion
* passive
* passivity
* patience
* patient

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From passion +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

#### Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)
* (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
    Antonym: (obsolete) dispassionate
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
* (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
** c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 6:Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

##### Further reading

* “passionate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “passionate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Latin
### Adjective

passiōnāte
* vocative masculine singular of passiōnātus

### References

* "passionate", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Middle English
### Adjective

passionate
* Alternative form of passionat