Where does “unpatience” come from?
unpatience (English) comes from English Patience, from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
unpatience (English): impatience
Ancestry of “unpatience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Patience | — |
| 2 | Middle English | pacience | — |
| 3 | Old French | pacience | patience |
| 4 | Latin | patientia | suffering; patience, endurance, forbearance;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |