different between impatience vs impatiens

English

Etymology

From Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. Synchronically analyzable as im- +? patience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pe???ns/
• Hyphenation: im?pa?tience

Noun

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

1. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

Antonyms

• patience
• haste

Related terms

• impassivity

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pa.sj??s/

Noun

impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience

English

Etymology

From translingual Impatiens, from Latin impati?ns.

Noun

impatiens (plural impatiens)

1. Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Impatiens.

Synonyms

• jewelweed
• touch-me-not

Further reading

• impatiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• impatiens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Pimientas, Pétainism

Latin

Etymology

From im- (“without, not”) + pati?ns (“suffering, patient”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im?pa.ti.ens/, [?m?pät?i??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im?pa.t?si.ens/, [im?p??t??s?i?ns]

Adjective

impati?ns (genitive impatientis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. that cannot bear; avoiding, fleeing
2. insensible, apathetic, stoic

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

References

• impatiens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impatiens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impatiens in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016