compassion的词源

英文词源

compassion (n.)

mid-14c., from Old French compassion "sympathy, pity" (12c.), from Late Latin compassionem (nominative compassio) "sympathy," noun of state from past participle stem of compati "to feel pity," from com- "together" (see com-) + pati "to suffer" (see passion).

Latin compassio is an ecclesiastical loan-translation of Greek sympatheia (see sympathy). An Old English loan-translation of compassion was efenðrowung.

中文词源

compassion：同情

com-, 强调。-pat, 情感，忍受，词源同patient, passion.

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compassion：同情，怜悯

词根词缀： com-共同 + -pass-痛苦 + -ion名词词尾 → 因一起遭受痛苦而相互怜悯