different between patience vs passion

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

From Middle English passioun, passion, from Old French passion (and in part from Old English passion), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb patior (“I suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hurt”), see also Old English f?ond (“devil, enemy”), Gothic ???????????????????? (faian, “to blame”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?sh'?n, IPA^(key): /?pæ??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?p?æ??n]
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

passion (countable and uncountable, plural passions)

1. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
2. Fervor, determination.
3. An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

4. Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

5. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
6. A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
7. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
8. (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

   Antonym: action
9. (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
10. (obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

11. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

Synonyms

• (fervor, determination): ardor, fire in the belly, zeal

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

passion (third-person singular simple present passions, present participle passioning, simple past and past participle passioned)

1. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
   • she passioned
     To see herself escap'd from so sore ills

2. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “passion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Pasions, Spinosa, saposin

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s?ion/, [?p?s??io?n]
• Rhymes: -?s?ion
• Syllabification: pas?si?on

Noun

passion

1. Genitive singular form of passio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French passion, from Old French passion, borrowed from Latin passi?, ultimately from patior. Cognate with patience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sj??/

Noun

passion f (plural passions)

1. (countable and uncountable) passion

Derived terms

• fruit de la passion

Related terms

• compassion
• pâtir

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

passion

1. Alternative form of passioun

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French passion.

Noun

passion f (plural passions)

1. passion

Descendants

• French: passion

Old English

Alternative forms

• passio

Etymology

From Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.si?un/

Noun

passion f (nominative plural passione)

1. passion of Christ

Descendants

• >? Middle English: passioun

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “passion”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “passion”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin passio, passionem.

Noun

passion f (oblique plural passions, nominative singular passion, nominative plural passions)

1. passion (suffering)
   1. (specifically, Christianity) the ordeal endured by Jesus in order to absolve humanity of sin

Descendants

• Middle French: passion
  • French: passion
• ? Middle English: passioun, pascioun, passion, passione, passioune, passiun, passyon, passyoun, passyun
  • English: passion, Passion
  • Scots: passion, patient

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (passion)
• passiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub