apathy

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀπάθεια“impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”
2. Latin · derived fromapathīa
3. French · derived fromapathie
4. English todayapathy

From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.

Words from the same roots