The story
- Latin · derived frompassio“passion”
- Old English · inherited fromcaru“care”
- English todayCare Sunday
From Old English caru (“care”) in its sense of “sorrow, trouble, suffering,” used as a calque of Latin passio (“passion”) in its sense of “suffering”, in reference to the Passion of Christ preceding and during Jesus's crucifixion.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcaru all →
care
Latinpassio all →
passion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.