tolerantia

Interlingua

Noun

tolerantia (uncountable)

  1. tolerance

Latin

Etymology

    From tolerāns +‎ -ia.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tolerantia f (genitive tolerantiae); first declension (rare)

    1. endurance, tolerance
      Antonym: intolerantia
      • 46 BCE, Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum 4.27:
        Sapientis animus magnitudine consilii, tolerantia rerum humanarum, contemptione fortunae, virtutibus denique omnibus ut moenibus saeptus vincetur et expugnabitur, qui ne civitate quidem pelli potest?
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      • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 67.5:
        Aeque reliqua quoque inter se paria sunt, tranquillitas, simplicitas, liberalitas, constantia, aequanimitas, tolerantia; omnibus enim istis una virtus subest, quae animum rectum et indeclinabilem praestat.
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      • c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory 2.20.10:
        Nam et latro pugnabit acriter, virtus tamen erit fortitudo; et tormenta sine gemitu feret malus servus, tolerantia tamen doloris laude sua non carebit.
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      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate 2 Cor.1.6:
        Sive autem tribulamur pro vestra exhortatione et salute, sive consolamur pro vestra consolatione, sive exhortamur pro vestra exhortatione et salute, quæ operatur tolerantiam earumdem passionum, quas et nos patimur
        If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. (NIV)

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative tolerantia tolerantiae
    genitive tolerantiae tolerantiārum
    dative tolerantiae tolerantiīs
    accusative tolerantiam tolerantiās
    ablative tolerantiā tolerantiīs
    vocative tolerantia tolerantiae

    Participle

    tolerantia

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of tolerāns

    References

    • tolerantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • tolerantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • tolerantia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.