patience
English
/ˈpeɪʃəns/
noun
Definitions
- The quality of being patient.
- Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. card game.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pacience borrowed from Old French pacience derived from Latin patientia root from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (hurt, hate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₁-
Gloss
hurt, hate
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
憎
Emoji
🤕
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beleave English
- impassive English
- impatience English
- passionate English
- passive English
- passivity English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- unpatience English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- pazienza Italian
- patience French
- paciencia Spanish, Castilian
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- paciência Portuguese
- *bilaibijaną Proto-Germanic
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- *þuldiz Proto-Germanic
- belǣfan Old English
- þyld Old English
- pacience Middle English
- thild Middle English
- thole Middle English
- thuld Middle English
- þol Old Norse
- impacience Old French
- pacience Old French
- paciència Catalan, Valencian
- þol Icelandic
- paciencia Galician
- tol Faroese
- pâcienche Norman
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- paciéncia Occitan
- paciencia Asturian
- pasensie Sranan Tongo