patience
/ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from English.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience."
- "I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it."
- "The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew."
- "Meg had named it Patience. "But why?" he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. "Patience is my favourite virtue," she had replied, "and we can call her Patty for short.""
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
- British English: /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
Usage
- Uncountable
- British usage