patience

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪʃəns/

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patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)

1. The quality of being patient.

   Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.

2. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.

• forbearance
• restraint
• thild
• thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)

• impatience

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• passivity
• patient

• Sranan Tongo: pasensi

• “patience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “patience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• clock patience
• garden patience

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From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɑ̃s/

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patience f (plural patiences)

1. patience

• perdre patience
• prendre son mal en patience

• patient

• “patience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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patience

1. Alternative form of pacience