patient

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English

Etymology

From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪʃənt/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃənt
• Hyphenation: pa‧tient

Adjective

patient (comparative more patient, superlative most patient)

1. (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
   • c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley

     Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.

   • December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World

     “Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close and patient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.
3. (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.

Synonyms

• composed

Antonyms

• impatient
• antsy
• macrophobic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

patient (plural patients)

1. A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.

   Coordinate term: case
3. (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

   Coordinate terms: agent; subject, object, rheme, theme
4. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “linguistics, grammar”): agent

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• -end

Further reading

• “patient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “patient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• antipet

Danish

Etymology

From Latin patiēns (“suffering”), the present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰaˈɕɛnˀd̥]

Noun

patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)

1. patient (person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person)

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

• klient

References

• “patient” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French patient, from Old French patient, borrowed from Latin patientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɑ̃/

Adjective

patient (feminine patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)

1. patient

   Antonym: impatient

Derived terms

• patiemment
• patienter

Related terms

• patience

Noun

patient m (plural patients, feminine patiente)

1. patient, outpatient
2. (dated) condemned man, person who has been sentenced to death

Further reading

• “patient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Adjective

patient

1. Alternative form of pacient

Noun

patient

1. Alternative form of pacient

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patiens, patientem.

Noun

patient oblique singular, m (oblique plural patienz or patientz, nominative singular patienz or patientz, nominative plural patient)

1. (medicine) patient

Descendants

• Middle French: patient
  • French: patient
  • → Middle English: pacient, paciente, pacyent, patient
    • English: patient
• Norman: pâcient

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasiˈenːt/
• IPA^(key): /paˈt͡ʃenːt/ (Finland)

Noun

patient c

1. a patient

Declension

Related terms

• långvårdspatient
• patientavgift
• patientförening

See also

• klient
• sjukhus (“hospital”)
• sjukling

References

• patient in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• patient in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• patient in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Anagrams

• aptiten