impaciente

See also: impacienté

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impatientem.

Adjective

impaciente m or f (plural impacientes)

1. impatient

   Antonym: paciente

Derived terms

• impacientemente

Related terms

• impaciencia
• paciente

Further reading

• “impaciente”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impatientem. By surface analysis, im- +‎ paciente.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pa.siˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ĩ.pa.sɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈsjẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pa.siˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ĩ.pa.sɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈsjẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pa.siˈẽ.te/ [ĩ.pa.sɪˈẽ.te], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈsjẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pɐˈsjẽ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧ci‧en‧te

Adjective

impaciente m or f (plural impacientes)

1. (of a person) impatient (intolerant of delay or having to wait)
2. (of an act or behaviour) impatient (prompted by, or demonstrating, impatience)

Antonyms

• paciente

Related terms

• impaciência
• paciência
• paciente

Further reading

• “impaciente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impaˈθjente/ [ĩm.paˈθjẽn̪.t̪e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /impaˈsjente/ [ĩm.paˈsjẽn̪.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: im‧pa‧cien‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin impatientem; equivalent to im- +‎ paciente.

Adjective

impaciente m or f (masculine and feminine plural impacientes)

1. impatient

   Antonym: paciente

Derived terms

• impacientar
• impacientemente

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

impaciente

1. inflection of impacientar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “impaciente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024