Where does “patience” come from?
Patience comes from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia meaning endurance or suffering, derived from the verb patior meaning to suffer or endure, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European peh₁-.
patience (English): The quality of being patient; Any of various card...
Definitions
- The quality of being patient; Any of various card...
Ancestry of “patience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | pacience | — |
| 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 |
Words derived from “patience”