patience

Senso (Inglese)

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

Opposto di
impatience
Frequenza

B2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈpeɪʃəns/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

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 native Old English ġeþyld.

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