The story
- Latin · derived fromcompati
- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromcompassio“sympathy”
- Old French · derived fromcompassion
- Middle English · inherited fromcompassioun
- English todaycompassion
From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion. By surface analysis, com- + passion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.