patience
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
The English word “patience” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced Old English ġeþyld.
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