passes / passus ['pæsǝs]
passes – v. – third person present singular of pass – 1. goes in a definite direction; 2. successfully completes an exam or course; 3. gives something received to another; this is a complex verb in spite of its shortness and has over a dozen different verbal meanings
passus – n. – a division in a narrative story or poem in medieval literature such a Langland’s Piers Plowman