Editing Compassion (section)

== Etymology ==
The English [[noun]] '''''compassion''''', meaning "to suffer together with", comes from [[Latin]]. Its [[prefix]] ''com-'' comes directly from {{lang|la|com}}, an [[Archaic Greece|archaic]] version of the Latin [[preposition]] and affix {{lang|la|[[wikt:cum|cum]]}} (= with); the ''-passion'' segment is derived from {{lang|la|passus}}, [[past participle]] of the [[deponent verb]] {{lang|la|[[wikt:patior|patior, patī, passus sum]]}}. Compassion is thus related in origin, form and meaning to the English noun patient (= one who suffers), from {{lang|la|patiens}}, [[present participle]] of the same {{lang|la|[[wikt:patior|patior]]}}, and is akin to the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] verb {{lang|grc|πάσχειν}} ({{transliteration|grc|paskhein}}, to suffer) and to its [[cognate]] noun {{lang|grc|[[wikt:πάθος|πάθος]]}} (= {{transliteration|grc|[[pathos]]}}).<ref>{{multiref2
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}}</ref> Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in almost all the major [[religion|religious traditions]] as among the greatest of [[virtue]]s.