pacience
Esperanto
Etymology
From pacienco (“patience”) + -e (“adverb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pat͡siˈent͡se]
- Rhymes: -ent͡se
- Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧en‧ce
Adverb
pacience
- patiently
Middle English
Alternative forms
- paciens, pacyence, patience
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpaːsiˈɛns(ə)/, /ˈpaːsjɛns(ə)/
Noun
pacience (uncountable)
- patience, equanimity (especially under duress)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:9, page 117v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- I ioon ȝoure bꝛoþer ⁊ partener in tribulacioun ⁊ kingdom ⁊ pacience in criſt iheſu .· was in an ile þat is clepid pathmos · foꝛ þe woꝛd of god · ⁊ foꝛ þe witneſſyng of iheſu
- I, John, your brother and partner in tribulation, the Kingdom, and endurance in Jesus Christ, was on an island that's called Patmos for the word of God and for the witnessing of Jesus.
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- patience dock (Rumex patientia)
Descendants
- English: patience
References
- “pācience, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin patientia.
Noun
pacience f (nominative singular pacience)
- patience
Related terms
- pacient / patient
Descendants
- French: patience
- Norman: pâcienche
- → Middle English: pacience, paciens, pacyence, patience
- English: patience