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Latin
Etymology
From patiens + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
patientia f (genitive patientiae); first declension
- suffering
- patience, endurance, forbearance
- submission, subjection (state of a subject)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “patientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patientia 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)
- patientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.