patientia

See also: Patientia

Latin

Etymology

From patiens +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.tiˈɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pat̪.t̪͡s̪iˈɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Noun

patientia f (genitive patientiae); first declension

1. suffering
2. patience, endurance, forbearance
3. submission, subjection (state of a subject)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	patientia	patientiae
genitive	patientiae	patientiārum
dative	patientiae	patientiīs
accusative	patientiam	patientiās
ablative	patientiā	patientiīs
vocative	patientia	patientiae

Related terms

• patior

Descendants

• Asturian: paciencia
• Catalan: paciència
• Old French: pacience
  • → Middle English: pacience
    • English: patience
  • French: patience
    • Haitian Creole: pasyans
  • Norman: pâcienche
  • Walloon: pacyince
• → Galician: paciencia
• Italian: pazienza
• Occitan: paciéncia
• Piedmontese: passiensa
• → Portuguese: paciência
• Romanian: paciență
• Sicilian: pacenzia, pacenza
  • → Maltese: paċenzja
• Spanish: paciencia

References

• “patientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "patientia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “patientia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.