English → Latin
“impatience” in Latin
spēshope (belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen); expectation, anticipation; apprehensionfestīnātiōAn instance of hastening or hurrying; haste, hurry, dispatch, speed.Ammiānusa masculine praenomen, famously held bymoraa duration of time before an event takes place, delay; a delay in the performance of an action, putting off; hindrancerumpōto break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open; to break, split, rupture, burst; to break; break off, t
The English word impatience itself goes back to Latin impatientia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
impatience
impatientia morae (or morarum) or spei (inability to endure delay, hope deferred, etc., after Silius, Ital., 8, 4; Ammianus, 28, 1, 9; Tac., Hist., 2, 40, extr. ☞ Impatientia alone has not this meaning): festinatio (undue haste; hurry). Impatience of (= inability to endure) anything, impatientia alicujus rei (e.g., morae): not to be able to restrain one’s impatience, rumpo or abrumpo patientiam (☞ but not patientia mihi rumpitur, Suet., Tib., 25; Tac., Ann., 12, 50, 5): to expect anything with impatience, acerrime aliquid exspectare. ☞ In the sense of “inability to endure,” intolerantia is post-classical. In Cic., etc., it has a passive sense, intolerantia regis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for impatience?
- The usual Latin words for “impatience” are spēs, festīnātiō, Ammiānus; also mora, rumpō. 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.