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Thread #58318 Message #923320
Posted By: GUEST,Redhorse at work
01-Apr-03 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: Any students of Latin here?
Subject: RE: Any students of Latin here?
My fading memory of latin tells me "passum" is past participle of "patere" to suffer, but including the old meaning of "suffer" which was to undergo as in "passive" : the pain maning of suffer came a lot later