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patience
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)
- The quality of being patient.
- 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)
- 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
- Alternative form of pacience
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longanimity
English
Etymology
From Late Latin longanimit?s, from longanimus, translating Ancient Greek ?????????? (makrothumía).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /l?????n?m?ti/
Noun
longanimity (uncountable)
- (now rare) Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
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