passe

The English adjective 'passe' is borrowed directly from the French 'passé', the past participle of the verb 'passer', meaning 'to pass'. This French verb originates from the Latin 'passus', the past participle of 'pati', meaning 'to suffer, undergo, or experience', which also gives us the sense of time or events passing by. The word entered English in the late 18th century, initially used to describe a woman past the prime of her youth, before its meaning generalized to anything that is out-of-date or no longer in vogue. The core logic is temporal: something that has 'passed' its period of relevance or popularity.

This word is a loanword from French and is not productively segmented using English morphemes. It is treated as a simplex unit in English.