passionate

Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.

adj

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
   Mandy is a passionate lover.
2. Fired with intense feeling.
   1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.

noun

1. A passionate individual.

verb

1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.