patient
English
/ˈpeɪʃənt/
adj
Definitions
- (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
- Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
- (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French patient derived from Old French pacient derived from Latin patiens derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (hurt, hate), *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
- care English
- copatient English
- cyberpatient English
- impassive English
- in English
- inpatient English
- interpatient English
- intrapatient English
- noninpatient English
- nonpatient English
- omnipatient English
- outpatient English
- overpatient English
- passionate English
- passive English
- passivity English
- patience English
- patientcare English
- patienthood English
- patientive English
- patientless English
- patientlike English
- patiently English
- patientness English
- penitential English
- penitentially English
- penitently English
- pseudopatient English
- repentance English
- repentant English
- repentantly English
- telepatient English
- unpatient English
- unpatientness English
- xenopatient English
- impatientia Latin
- paene Latin
- paenitentia Latin
- paeniteo Latin
- paenitere Latin
- paenitēns Latin
- passio Latin
- patiens Latin
- patientia Latin
- patiēns, patiens, patientis Latin
- Patiens German
- Patient German
- paziente Italian
- patiënt Dutch, Flemish
- patiemment French
- patient French
- patienter French
- penitente Spanish, Castilian
- πῆμα Ancient Greek
- ἀπήμων Ancient Greek
- *peh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- pacient Old French
- patient Old French
- nepacienta Ido
- pacienta Ido
- pacienteso Ido
- pâcient Norman
- patient Middle French
- *píHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- pasyan Haitian, Haitian Creole
- in
- care
- passive
- patience
- patiently
- passivity
- copatient
- unpatient
- impassive
- inpatient
- repentant
- repentance
- nonpatient
- patientive
- penitently
- passionate
- outpatient
- patientless
- omnipatient
- patientlike
- patienthood
- patientness
- penitential
- overpatient
- patientcare
- telepatient
- xenopatient
- repentantly
- noninpatient
- interpatient
- intrapatient
- cyberpatient
- unpatientness
- pseudopatient
- penitentially