pathetic

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαθητικός“subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”
2. Latin · derived frompatheticus
3. Middle French · derived frompathétique
4. English todaypathetic

From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to suffer”). By surface analysis, path- + -etic.