"Pathetic" | Etymology of pathetic by etymonline
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"pathetic (adj.)
1590s, 'affecting the emotions or affections, moving, stirring' (now obsolete in this broad sense), from French pathétique 'moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos 'subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion,' from pathetos 'liable to suffer,' verbal adjective of pathein 'to suffer' (from PIE root *kwent(h)- 'to suffer')."
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