sufferentia

Latin

Alternative forms

• subferentia (Late Latin)
• suffrentia, sūfrentia (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From sufferens, present participle of sufferō +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suf.feˈren.ti.a/, [s̠ʊfːɛˈrɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suf.feˈren.t͡si.a/, [sufːeˈrɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

sufferentia f (genitive sufferentiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a bearing or enduring, toleration, sufferance, resignation, patience
2. (Medieval Latin) Synonym of voluntās, arbitrium, cōnsēnsus
3. (Medieval Latin) a reprieve, a truce, an armistice, a ceasefire

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sufferentia	sufferentiae
Genitive	sufferentiae	sufferentiārum
Dative	sufferentiae	sufferentiīs
Accusative	sufferentiam	sufferentiās
Ablative	sufferentiā	sufferentiīs
Vocative	sufferentia	sufferentiae

Descendants

• Italian: sofferenza
• Old French: soffrance
  • English: sufferance
  • French: souffrance
• Piedmontese: soferensa
• Portuguese: sofrência
• Romanian: suferință
• Spanish: sufriencia

References

• “suffĕrentĭa (subf-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. SUFFERENTIA 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)
• 2. SUFFERENTIA 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)
• 3. SUFFERENTIA 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)
• suffĕrentĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,508/1.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sufferentia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,002/2