Where does “Patience” come from?
Patience comes from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia, derived from the Latin verb patior meaning to suffer or endure.
Patience (English): The quality of being patient
Definitions
- The quality of being patient
Ancestry of “Patience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | pacience | patience, equanimity especially under duress |
| 2 | Old French | pacience | patience |
| 3 | Latin | patientia | suffering; patience, endurance, forbearance;... |
| 4 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 5 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |