Word Parts - pass, pati

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pass-, pati- : Latin for suffering, feeling, enduring

compassion - having sorrow or consideration for suffering or troubles of another or others; compassivity - a condition of suffering together with another; dispassion - absence of passion, bias, or emotion; dispassionate - free from passion, emotion or bias; impatience - inability to bear suffering, discomfort; incompatible - inability to exist in harmony.

And for you:

impassive; impassible; compatible; compassive; histoincompatibility; passible; passionate; passivity; patient; uncompassionate; incompassionate; impassive.

Source: English-Word Information, Word Info About English Vocabulary