patience
pa·tience
noun
1.
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Origin
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.
Phrases
- lose patience
- patience dock
- patience is a virtue
- patience of a saint
- patience of an angel
- patience of Job
- patience of Mother Teresa
- test someone's patience
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