patiens

See also: Patiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ti.ens/, [ˈpät̪iẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpat.t͡si.ens/, [ˈpät̪ː͡s̪iens]

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.

Derived terms

• patienter
• patientia

Descendants

• → Danish: patient
• → Esperanto: paciento
• → Galician: paciente
• → German: Patiens, Patient
  • → Hungarian: páciens
  • → Polish: pacjent
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pacìjent
• → Italian: paziente, ⇒? pazzo (“crazy”)
• → Norwegian: pasient
• → Old French: patient
  • Middle French: patient
    • French: patient
    • → Dutch: patiënt
      • Afrikaans: pasient
    • → English: patient
• → Portuguese: paciente
• → Romanian: pacient
• → Russian: пациент (pacijent)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pacijent
• → Slovak: pacient
• → Sicilian: pacienti, ⇒? pacciu (“crazy”)
• → Spanish: paciente
• → Swedish: patient

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^[1], 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