noun · femininefirst declension
tolerantia
tolerantia f (genitive tolerantiae)
Classical[tɔ.ɫɛˈran.ti.a]Ecclesiastical[to.leˈran.t͡si.a]
Meaning
- femininerareendurance, tolerance
Sapientis animus magnitudine consilii, tolerantia rerum humanarum, contemptione fortunae, virtutibus denique omnibus ut moenibus saeptus vincetur et expugnabitur, qui ne civitate quidem pelli potest?
46 BCE, Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum 27Aeque reliqua quoque inter se paria sunt, tranquillitas, simplicitas, liberalitas, constantia, aequanimitas, tolerantia; omnibus enim istis una virtus subest, quae animum rectum et indeclinabilem praestat.
c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 67.5
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tolerantia | tolerantiae |
| genitive | tolerantiae | tolerantiārum |
| dative | tolerantiae | tolerantiīs |
| accusative | tolerantiam | tolerantiās |
| ablative | tolerantiā | tolerantiīs |
| vocative | tolerantia | tolerantiae |
tŏlĕrantĭa, ae, f. tolero,
I. a bearing, supporting, endurance (very rare):
rerum humanarum, Cic. Par. 4, 1, 27: pax vel incuriā vel tolerantiā priorum timebatur, Tac. Agr. 20; Sen. Ep. 67, 5: doloris, Quint. 2, 20, 10: malorum, id. 5, 10, 33; Vulg. 2 Cor. 1, 6.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tolerantia ae, f
tolero, a bearing, supporting, endurance : rerum humanarum: priorum, Ta.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin tolerantia From tolerāns + -ia.
In English words that came into English from tolerantia
- tolerancetolerantia