Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

dispassionate

 

free from emotion or prejudice; impartial

 

Reporters for the school newspaper are expected to write dispassionate, factual news accounts; editorializing, they are told, belongs on editorial pages.

 

Related English words: dispassion, dispassionateness

 

Latin root word: patior, pati, passus - to suffer, endure

 

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