patientia

See also: Patientia

Latin

Etymology

From patiens +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

patientia f (genitive patientiae); first declension

  1. suffering
  2. patience, endurance, forbearance
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.26:
      Habēs ubi ostentēs tuam illam praeclāram patientiam — famis, frīgoris, inopiae rērum omnium — quibus tē brevī tempore cōnfectum esse sentiēs.
      You have somewhere you may display that famous endurance of yours — regarding hunger, cold, and the want of all things — by which you will soon realize you have been destroyed.
  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

Descendants

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, 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.