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“patience” in Latin
patiorto suffer, endure, tolerate; to allow, acquiesce, permit, submit; to exist, livetolerōto bear, endure, tolerate, put up with, support; to sustain (with the notion of barely doing so)persevērōto abide by; to adhere to; to continue steadfastly: to persist, to persevereperpetiorto endure (bear steadfastly), put up with, stand; to dare, venture, resist with courage and firmness
The English word patience itself goes back to Latin patior, through patientia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
patience
patientia (will and inclination to endure anything without resistance; ☞ Cic., De Invent., 2, 54, 163): tolerantia (power and endurance in the bearing of sufferings, etc., with a sense of oppressiveness and contempt of it; usually with a genitive of that in which one shows patience; e.g., tolerantia doloris): perseverantia (perseverance, when one does not suffer himself to be deterred from thepursuit of an object; ☞ Cic., De Invent., 2, 54, 164): aequus animus, aequitas animi (when one does not suffer himself to be agitated, disturbed, angered, etc.): to have patience, patientia uti: to have patience with anything, pati ac ferre aliquid; perpeti, perferre aliquid (i. e., to bear patiently to the end; Vid: Liv., 28, 34; Hor., Ep., 1, 15, 17): to have patience with anybody, aliquem, or alicujus mores, or naturam, patienter ferre; or aliquem ferre only: with patience [Vid: PATIENTLY]: to try one’s patience, patientiam alicujus tentare: to show patience in anything, patientiam adhibere alicui rei: I lose all patience, my patience is exhausted, patientiam rumpo or abrumpo (☞ not patientia mihi rumpitur; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Tib., 24, p. 270; Tac., Ann., 12, 50, 3): patience! i. e., wait! exspecta (exspectate)! mane (manete)
Patience
Patientia, -ae (f.)
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for patience?
- The usual Latin words for “patience” are patior, tolerō, persevērō; also perpetior. 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.