Intellectual Passions LO28988

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Replying to LO28987 --

On Sunday, August 11, Leo wrote,

> From the original contribution of At (LO28964), I got the impression that
> At tried to open our eyes for connections and mergings. I wonder what the
> etymology of 'passion' is (I have no dictionary here in this place), but
> it will not surprise me if it has something to do with 'fitting'.

At the risk of being pedantic, Leo, and perhaps others can find a deeper
(possibly Sanskrit) derivation for "passion," I believe in modern European
languages it emerges from the Latin word "passio," which means to suffer.

Regards,
Malcolm Burson

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