English → Latin
“impatient” in Latin
spēshope (belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen); expectation, anticipation; apprehensionfestīnōto hasten, make haste, hurry; pass swiftly; to accelerate, do or prepare hastily, make haste with something, hasten, hurferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, bearSīliusa Roman nomen gentiliciumAmmiānusa masculine praenomen, famously held byVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.
The English word impatient itself goes back to Latin impatiēns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
impatient
impatiens morae (or morarum) or spei (Silius, Ital., 8, 4; Ammianus, 28, 1; Tac., Hist., 2, 40, extr. Impatiens alone has not this meaning): festinans (hastening). To be impatient for anybody’s arrival, alicujus adventum non mediocriter captare.
Unable to endure, intolerans alicujus rei (Liv.): impatiens alicujus rei (post-classical, Velleius, Plin., Col.): qui aliquid pati, ferre, sustinere non potest.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for impatient?
- The usual Latin words for “impatient” are spēs, festīnō, ferō; also Sīlius, Ammiānus, Velleius. 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.