Etymology

passer

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Today it means: One who succeeds in passing a test, etc. Full definition →

English pass ← Middle English passen ← Old French passer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peth₂-
  2. Proto-Italic*pattus
  3. Latinpassus
  4. Vulgar Latin*passāre
  5. Old Frenchpasser
  6. Middle Englishpassen
  7. Englishpass
  8. English todaypasser

From pass + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.