patient

See also Patient

English

Etymology

From Latin patiens, present participle of pati (“to suffer, endure”); akin to Greek πάσχειν (paskhein, “to suffer”); see pathos, from Proto-Indo-European *pē(i)- "to hurt" [Pokorny pē(i)- 792].

Pronunciation

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Adjective

patient (comparative patienter or more patient, superlative patientest or most patient)

1. content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting; longminded; not bothered with having to wait; not unwilling to wait

Synonyms

• composed
• (waiting a long time): longminded

Antonyms

• impatient
• antsy

Derived terms

• patiently

Related terms

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• passivity
• patience

Translations

not losing one's temper while waiting

• Arabic: صبور (ar) (ṣabūr)
• Armenian: համբերատար (hy) (hamberatar)
• Belarusian: цярплівы (be) (cjarplívy)
• Bulgarian: търпелив (bg) (tǎrpelív)
• Catalan: pacient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耐心 (cmn) (nàixīn), 耐煩 (cmn), 耐烦 (cmn) (nàifán)

• Czech: trpělivý (cs) m
• Danish: tålmodig (da)
• Dutch: geduldig
• Esperanto: pacienca (eo)
• Finnish: kärsivällinen (fi)
• French: patient (fr) m, patiente (fr) f
• German: geduldig (de)
• Greek: υπομονετικός (el) (ypomonetikós) m
• Hungarian: türelmes (hu)
• Icelandic: þolinmóður (is) m
• Italian: paziente (it) m
• Japanese: [[忍耐強い]#Japanese|忍耐強い]]] [[:ja:忍耐強い]|(ja)]] (nintaizuyoi), 我慢強い (ja) (gamanzuyoi), 気が長い (ja) (ki ga nagai), しんぼう強い (ja) (shinbouzuyoi)
• Jèrriais: pâcient

• Latin: patiēns (la)
• Luxembourgish: gedëlleg (lb)
• Macedonian: трпелив (mk) (trpéliv)
• Norwegian: tålmodig (no)
• Old English: ġeþyldiġ (ang)
• Persian: صبور (fa) (sabur)
• Polish: cierpliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: paciente (pt) m and f
• Russian: терпеливый (ru) (terpelívyj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стрпљив (sh)

  Roman: strpljiv (sh)

• Slovak: trpezlivý (sk)
• Slovene: potrpežljiv (sl)
• Spanish: paciente (es) m and f
• Swedish: tålmodig (sv), ha tålamod (sv)
• Turkish: sabırlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: терплячий (uk) (terpljáčyj), терпеливий (uk) (terpelývyj)
• Volapük: sufälik (vo)

Noun

patient (plural patients)

1. A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
2. (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

   The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.

Antonyms

• (linguistics, grammar): agent

Derived terms

inpatient outpatient

patient role patient of something

Translations

someone who receives treatment from a doctor

• Afrikaans: pasiënt (af)
• Arabic: مريض (ar) (mariiD) m
• Armenian: հիվանդ (hy) (hivand)
• Catalan: pacient (ca)
• Chamicuro: ijchapyani
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 患者 (cmn) (huànzhě), 病患 (cmn) (bìnghuàn)

• Czech: pacient (cs) m
• Danish: patient (da) c
• Dutch: patiënt m, patiënte f
• Esperanto: paciento (eo), pacientino (eo)
• Finnish: potilas (fi)
• French: patient (fr) m
• German: Patient (de) m
• Greek: ασθενής (el) (asthenís) m
• Hebrew: מטופל (he) (metupal), פציאנט (he) (patsient) m
• Hindi: रोगी (hi) (rogī), मरीज़ (hi) (marīz), बीमार (hi) (bīmār)
• Hungarian: beteg (hu), páciens (hu)
• Icelandic: sjúklingur (is) m
• Italian: paziente (it) m

• Japanese: 患者 (ja) (かんじゃ, kanja)
• Khmer: អ្នកជំងឺ (km)
• Korean: 환자 (ko) (hwanja) (患者 (ko))
• Malay: pesakit (ms)
• Maori: tūroro (mi)
• Norwegian: pasient (no) m
• Persian: مریض (fa) (mariz), بیمار (fa) (bimâr)
• Polish: pacjent (pl) m, pacjentka (pl) f
• Portuguese: paciente (pt) m
• Russian: пациент (ru) (paciɛ́nt) m, больной (ru) (bol'nój) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pacìjent (sh) m, pacìjentica (sh) f, pacìjentkinja (sh) f, болесник (sh) (bolesnik) m, болесница (sh) (bolesnica) f
• Slovak: pacient m, pacientka f
• Slovene: bolnik m, bolnica f, pacient m, pacientka f
• Sotho: mokudi (st)
• Spanish: paciente (es)
• Swedish: patient (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasyente (tl)
• Telugu: రోగి (te) (rōgi)
• Urdu: مریض (ur) (marīz), بیمار (ur) (bīmār)
• Vietnamese: kiên nhẫn (vi)

See also

• -end

External links

• patient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• patient in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• antipet

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Danish

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Etymology

From Latin patiens (“suffering”), the present active participle of patī (“to suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pasjɛnt/, [pʰaˈɕɛnˀd̥]

Noun

patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)

1. patient (person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person)

Inflection

    Inflection of patient

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	patient	patienten	patienter	patienterne
genitive	patients	patientens	patienters	patienternes

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /pa.sjɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /pa.sjA~/

Adjective

patient m (feminine patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)

1. patient

Antonyms

• impatient

Noun

patient m (plural patients; feminine patiente, plural patientes)

1. a patient, an outpatient

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

patient c

1. a patient

Declension

Declension of patient

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	patient	patienten	patienter	patienterna
genitive	patients	patientens	patienters	patienternas

Related terms

• långvårdspatient
• patientavgift
• patientförening