patiens

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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

  1. suffering, enduring
  2. allowing, acquiescing, submitting
  3. patient; long-suffering

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative patiēns patientēs patientia
Genitive patientis patientium
Dative patientī patientibus
Accusative patientem patiēns patientēs
patientīs
patientia
Ablative patiente
patientī1
patientibus
Vocative patiēns patientēs patientia

1When used purely as an adjective.

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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