[ˈpaʃənət], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- having, showing, or caused by strong feelings or beliefs
(e.g: passionate pleas for help)

- arising from or involving intense feelings of sexual love
(e.g: a passionate affair)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (also in the senses ‘easily moved to passion’ and ‘enraged’): from medieval Latin passionatus ‘full of passion’, from passio (see passion)