LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefirst declension

patientia

patientia f (genitive patientiae)
Classical[pa.tiˈɛn.ti.a]Ecclesiastical[pat.t͡siˈɛn.t͡si.a]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. femininesuffering
  2. femininepatience, endurance, forbearance
    Habēs ubi ostentēs tuam illam praeclāram patientiam — famis, frīgoris, inopiae rērum omnium — quibus tē brevī tempore cōnfectum esse sentiēs.You have somewhere you may display that famous endurance of yours — regarding hunger, cold, and the want of all things — by which you will soon realize you have been destroyed.63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.26
  3. femininesubmission, subjection (state of a subject)

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

animus quī mala fert nec frangitur; mīles patientiā hiemem vincit.
patientia -ae f — in Mille Verba, ch. Līmes: ad Carnuntum

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativepatientiapatientiae
genitivepatientiaepatientiārum
dativepatientiaepatientiīs
accusativepatientiampatientiās
ablativepatientiāpatientiīs
vocativepatientiapatientiae

pătĭentĭa, ae, f. patior,
I. the quality of bearing, suffering, or enduring, patience, endurance.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: pati entia est honestatis aut utilitatis causā rerum arduarum ac difficilium voluntaria ac diuturna perpessio, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: patientia famis et frigoris, id. Cat. 1, 10, 26: hominum ea patientia, virtus frugalitasque est, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 7: paupertatis, id. Agr. 2, 24, 64: audiendi, Quint. 11, 2, 8; 12, 9, 9.—
B. In partic., submission to unnatural lust, pathicism, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34; Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 5; id. Vit. Beat. 13, 3; Tac. A. 6, 1; Petr. 9 and 25; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2.—
II. Transf.
A. Forbearance, indulgence, lenity: constantiam dico? nescio an melius patientiam possem dicere, Cic. Lig. 9, 26: quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientiā nostrā? id. Cat. 1, 1, 1; id. Pis. 2, 5: quem duplici panno patientia velat, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 25: levius fit patientiā Quicquid corrigere est nefas, id. C. 1, 24, 19.—
B. In a bad sense, indolence, want of spirit: ne quis in me aut nimiam patientiam, aut nimium stuporem arguat, Porc. Latro ap. Sen. Contr. 2, 15; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5: in patientiā firmitudinem simulans, Tac. A. 6, 46.—
C. Submissiveness, subjection: usque ad servilem patientiam demissus, Tac. A. 14, 26: Britanniam uno praelio veteri patientiae restituit, id. Agr. 16; id. H. 2, 29.

Origins

From patiens + -ia.

Descendants
  • Catalanpaciència
  • Englishpatiencefrom Old French pacience
  • Frenchpatiencefrom Old French pacience
  • Italianpazienza
  • Occitanpaciéncia
  • Portuguesepaciência
  • Romanianpaciență
  • Spanishpaciencia
  • Asturianpaciencia
  • Haitian Creolepasyansfrom Old French pacience

In English words that came into English from patientia

  • patiencepatientia
  • patiencypatientia

Quick answers

What does patientia mean in Latin?
patientia, a noun, means “suffering; patience, endurance, forbearance; submission, subjection (state of a subject)”.
What is the genitive of patientia?
The genitive singular is patientiae. patientia is feminine, first declension.
How do you pronounce patientia?
In classical Latin, [pa.tiˈɛn.ti.a]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [pat.t͡siˈɛn.t͡si.a].