patience

From Middle English pacience, borrowed from Old French pacience (modern: patience), from Latin patientia. Displaced native Middle English thuld, thuild (“patience”) (from Old English þyld (“patience”)), Middle English thole (“patience”) (from Old Norse þol (“patience, endurance”)), Middle English bilǣfing, bileaving (“patience, perseverance, remaining”) (from Old English belǣfan (“to endure, survive”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪʃəns/

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patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)

1. The quality of being patient.
2. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).

• thild
• thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)

• impatience

• passion
• passionate
• passive
• passivity
• patient

• patience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• patience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• clock patience
• garden patience

From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɑ̃s/

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patience f (plural patiences)

1. Patience

• patient

• “patience” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).