Where does “patience” come from?
patience (French) comes from Middle French 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.
patience (French): patience
Definitions
- patience
Ancestry of “patience”, step by step
patience traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French pacience
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | 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 |
via Middle French patience
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | patience | — |