## Meanings
1. Accepting what happens without taking action or resisting.
2. Describing a verb form where the subject receives the action, as in 'the ball was thrown'.
3. The form of a verb showing that the subject receives the action rather than doing it.

## Examples
- He stayed passive during the argument and said nothing.
- Academic writing often favours passive sentences.
- 'The ball was thrown by the boy' is written in the passive.

## Synonyms
- disinterested
- uninvolved

## Derived Forms
- activo-passive
- antipassive
- endopassive
- exopassive
- interpassive
- mediopassive
- neutropassive
- nonpassive
- paggro
- passifan
- passival
- passivate

## Related Forms
- passion
- passionate
- patience
- patient

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *peh₁-
- Root: passyf
- Root: passif
- Root: passivus

## Etymology
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.

## AI Etymology
Passive comes from Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient. Modern senses include accepting what happens without taking action or resisting and describing a verb form where the subject receives the action, as in 'the ball was thrown'. The wider word family includes derivatives such as activo-passive, antipassive, endopassive, exopassive, interpassive, and mediopassive and related forms such as passion, passionate, patience, and patient.

## Topics
- Sports & Fitness

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