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We have found lemma(root) word of passives : passive.
Definitions
[ˈpasɪv], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
(e.g: the women were portrayed as passive victims)
- denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them)
- (of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
(e.g: a passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes)
- (of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide
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Origin
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late Middle English(in passive, also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati
[ˈpasɪv], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a passive form of a verb
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Origin
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late Middle English(in passive, also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati
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