different between patience vs abdication

English

Etymology

From Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia. Displaced native Middle English thuld, thuild (“patience”) (from Old English þyld (“patience”)), Middle English thole (“patience”) (from Old Norse þol (“patience, endurance”)), Middle English bil?fing, bileaving (“patience, perseverance, remaining”) (from Old English bel?fan (“to endure, survive”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe???ns/

Noun

patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)

1. The quality of being patient.
2. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).

Synonyms

• thild
• thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)

Antonyms

• impatience

Related terms

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• passivity
• patient

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: pasensi

Translations

Further reading

• patience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• patience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

See also

• clock patience
• garden patience

French

Etymology

From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sj??s/

Noun

patience f (plural patiences)

1. patience

Derived terms

• perdre patience
• prendre son mal en patience

Related terms

• patient

Further reading

• “patience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

patience

1. Alternative form of pacience

English

Etymology

First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdic?ti? (“renunciation”), from abdic?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.d??ke?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.d??ke?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)

1. (obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
2. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]

   abdication of the throne, government, power, authority

4. (obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. [Attested only in the mid 18^th century.]
5. (obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]

Translations

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abdic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.di.ka.sj??/

Noun

abdication f (plural abdications)

1. abdication

Related terms

• abdiquer

Further reading

• “abdication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

abdication (plural abdicationes)

1. abdication