patience
See also: Patience
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced native Old English ġeþyld.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)
- The quality of being patient.
- Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
- 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
- The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
- Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.
SynonymsEdit
- forbearance
- restraint
- thild
- thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)
AntonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: pasensi
TranslationsEdit
quality of being patient
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game that can be played by one person
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Further readingEdit
- patience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- patience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
patience f (plural patiences)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Russian: пасья́нс (pasʹjáns, “solitaire (game)”)
Further readingEdit
- “patience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
patience
- Alternative form of pacience