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/pa.te.tik/

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Translation

pathetic, pitiful, moving

Word origin

From Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos ('sensitive, capable of feeling'), from pathos ('suffering'). English 'pathetic' and 'sympathy' share that root.

Origin
Greek
Root
pathetikos
English cognates
pathetic, pathos, sympathy

Grammar

Masc pluralpathétiques

Examples

.

His speech was truly pathetic.

.

This film tells a pitiful story.

.

She finds his excuses pathetic.

ment.

He is pathetic when he lies.

' .

The moving scenes in the book affected me.

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This word is part of lesson 58.