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“forbearance” in Latin
dēvītātĭoan avoidingintermissiōintermission, interruptionindulgeōto be kind or courteous (to); to be inclined (to); give free rein (to); to give oneself up (to); to be addicted (to), inbenignitāskindness, benevolence, friendliness, courtesy; liberality, bounty, favor; lenity, mercypatiorto suffer, endure, tolerate; to allow, acquiesce, permit, submit; to exist, live
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
forbearance
A shunning, devitatio: intermissio (omission for a time).
Command of temper, restraint of passion, imperium sui (general term, Plin., 35, 10, 36, No. 12, § 86). [Vid: SELF-RESTRAINT.] It has cost me, or required, a good deal of forbearance to, etc., vix ab animo impetrare potui, ut, etc.: I can’t carry my forbearance so far as all that, *hoc a me impetrare nequeo.
Indulgence, exercise of patience, indulgentia: elementia: benignitas [SYN. in INDULGENCE]; patientia: patiens animus: to treat anybody’s faults with forbearance, indulgere alicujus peccatis; veniam dare errori: to treat anybody with forbearance, indulgentia tractare or indulgenter habere aliquem; also, indulgere alicui: with much forbearance, magna esse in aliquem indulgentia: with too much forbearance, nimis or nimium alicui indulgere. To treat anything with forbearance, leniter ferre aliquid (Ov.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for forbearance?
- The usual Latin words for “forbearance” are dēvītātĭo, intermissiō, indulgeō; also benignitās, patior. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.