passee

passee

See also: passée, pâssée, and Passee

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
English -ee
English passee

    From pass + -ee.

    Noun

    passee (plural passees)

    1. One who is passed.
      • 2013, Bernard De Koven, A Playful Path, page 121:
        To keep the people who are doing the passing sensitive to the pesron being passed […] , you might want to ask them to hum or chant or whisper sweet nothings. The passee, aside from worrying about being dropped, might also spend a lot of her time worrying, more rightfully, about being touched, as they say, “inappropriately.”

    German

    Adjective

    passee (indeclinable, predicative only)

    1. Formerly standard spelling of passé which was deprecated in 2017.

    Declension

    Indeclinable, predicative-only.

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