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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”).
Pronunciation
Participle
patiēns (genitive patientis, comparative patientior, superlative patientissimus); third-declension one-termination participle
- suffering, enduring
- allowing, acquiescing, submitting
- patient; long-suffering
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “patiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patiens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- patiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be able to bear heat and cold: aestus et frigoris patientem esse
- to be able to endure hunger and thirst: famis et sitis patientem esse
- capable of exertion: patiens laboris