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patient
English
Etymology
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate, hurt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe???nt/
- Hyphenation: pa?tient
Adjective
patient (comparative patienter or more patient, superlative patientest or most patient)
- (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
- Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
- December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World
- “Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close and patient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.
- c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley
- Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.
- December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World
- (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
- 1661, John Fell, Doctor Henry Hammond, 1810, Christopher Wordsworth (editor), Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 5, page 380,
- To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.
- 1661, John Fell, Doctor Henry Hammond, 1810, Christopher Wordsworth (editor), Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 5, page 380,
Synonyms
- composed
Antonyms
- impatient
- antsy
- macrophobic
Derived terms
- patiently
Related terms
- passion
- passionate
- passive
- passivity
- patience
Translations
Noun
patient (plural patients)
- A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue
- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.
- c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue
Antonyms
- (linguistics, grammar): agent
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- -end
Further reading
- patient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- antipet
Danish
Etymology
From Latin pati?ns (“suffering”), the present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p?a???n?d?]
Noun
patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)
- patient (person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person)
Inflection
Derived terms
See also
- klient
References
- “patient” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Middle French patient, from Old French patient, borrowed from Latin pati?ns, patientem
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.sj??/
Adjective
patient (feminine singular patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)
- patient
- Antonym: impatient
Derived terms
- patiemment
- patienter
Related terms
- patience
Noun
patient m (plural patients, feminine patiente)
- a patient, an outpatient
Further reading
- “patient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Adjective
patient
- Alternative form of pacient
Noun
patient
- Alternative form of pacient
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin patiens, patientem.
Noun
patient m (oblique plural patienz or patientz, nominative singular patienz or patientz, nominative plural patient)
- (medicine) patient
Descendants
- Middle French: patient
- French: patient
- ? Middle English: pacient, paciente, pacyent, patient
- English: patient
- Norman: pâcient
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
patient c
- a patient
Declension
Related terms
- långvårdspatient
- patientavgift
- patientförening
Anagrams
- aptiten
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pathos
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (páthos, “suffering”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pe????s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pe???o?s/, /?pæ??o?s/
Noun
pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)
- The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
- 20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in
- Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
- (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
- (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
- Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pathos.
Related terms
- antipathy
- apathy
- bathos
- empathy
- pathetic
- patience
- patient
- pathology
- pathogen
- psychopathy
- sympathy
Translations
Further reading
- pathos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pathos in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Pashto, Potash, potash, sophta
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- páthos, patos
Noun
pathos m (plural pathos)
- pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)
Spanish
Noun
pathos m (plural pathos)
- pathos
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