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A small Latin word English never really translated. You meet it in footnotes, bibliographies, and indexes, not in speech. When a writer says “Smith 1990, passim”, they mean: this person or this subject comes up again and again in that book, here and there, not on one page you can point to. Though actually it does not mean “on every single page”. The Latin sense is “everywhere, scattered about”. Scholars use it when listing every page would be silly. It is quite formal, and it is not a verb: you do not “passim” a topic. It just sits after a citation.
（索引用語）散見、文中多處。台灣學術寫作常直接保留英文 passim。
組成Unadapted borrowing from Latin passim, “everywhere, here and there”. English took the Latin word as it was.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
passimadv/ˈpæ.sɪm/
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Used in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited; here and there, throughout.
- The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adversus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
- See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).
passimadj/ˈpæ.sɪm/
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rareThat occurs at various places throughout a text.
- In these passim allusions one often ‘nods’.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。