Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PATIENTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PATIENT pacient, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#PATIENT patient, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PATIENT pacient, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PATIENT patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PATIENT *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃn̩t]Category:English 2-syllable words#PATIENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛjʃənt/Category:English 2-syllable words#PATIENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/, [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t]Category:English 2-syllable words#PATIENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT
• Rhymes: -eɪʃəntCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃənt#PATIENTCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃənt/2 syllables#PATIENT
• Hyphenation: pa‧tient

Adjective

patient (comparative more patient, superlative most patient)Category:English lemmas#PATIENTCategory:English adjectives#PATIENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

   Synonyms: composed, forbearing

   Antonyms: antsy, impatient

   Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.Category:English terms with usage examples#PATIENT

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:

     Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.

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2. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

   Synonyms: determined, sedulous, steady

   patient endeavourCategory:English terms with usage examples#PATIENT

   a patient waitCategory:English terms with usage examples#PATIENT

   patient analysisCategory:English terms with usage examples#PATIENT

   • 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.

   • 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:

     In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."

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3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PATIENT) Physically able to suffer or bear.

   Synonyms: sufferable, resistant; see also Thesaurus:tolerant

   • 1661, John Fell, “Doctor Henry Hammond”, in Christopher Wordsworth, editor, Ecclesiastical Biography, volume 5, published 1810, page 380:

     To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.

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Noun

patient (plural patients)Category:English lemmas#PATIENTCategory:English nouns#PATIENTCategory:English countable nouns#PATIENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

2. A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.

   Coordinate term: case

   Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.

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   At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.

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   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.

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   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […] . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

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4. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#PATIENT, grammarCategory:en:Grammar#PATIENT) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

   Antonyms: agent; doerCategory:English links with manual fragments#PATIENT

   Coordinate terms: subject, object; rheme, theme

   The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.

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   • 1982, Paul J. Hopper, Tense-aspect: Between Semantics & Pragmatics, →ISBN:

     The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects.

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   • 2004, Paul Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, →ISBN, page 292:

     Since we have argued that the absolutive argument in Dyirbal is the grammatical subject of its clause, we must conclude that in the antipassive construction the agent replaces the patient as grammatical subject.

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5. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
   • c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:

     Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.

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   • 1988, Sarah Waterlow, Sarah Broadie, Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics, →ISBN, page 159:

     For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.

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   • 1994, Larry Cochran, Joan Laub, Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life, →ISBN:

     How does a person change from a patient to an agent in shaping and living a course of life?

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   • 1999, Lloyd P. Gerson, Aristotle: Logic and metaphysics, →ISBN, page 127:

     According to the tradition, when an agent acts on a patient, the change is located in the patient. If the patient reacts on the agent, then the agent is a patient in the new relation.

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   • 2010, Mohua Banerjee, Anil Seth, Logic and Its Applications: Fourth Indian Conference, ICLA 2011, →ISBN, page 7:

     The starting point is that all events involve an agent and a patient. Agents and patients are modelled as (material or non-material) objects, and can therefore be represented as points in conceptual spaces.

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Further reading

• “patient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “patient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• antipet

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Danish terms derived from Latin#PATIENT patiēns (“suffering”), the present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰaˈɕɛnˀd̥]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT

Noun

patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)Category:Danish lemmas#PATIENTCategory:Danish nouns#PATIENTCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

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

See also

• klient

References

• “patient” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology

Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#PATIENTCategory:French terms derived from Middle French#PATIENT patient, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#PATIENTCategory:French terms derived from Old French#PATIENT patient, borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#PATIENTCategory:French terms derived from Latin#PATIENT patientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.sjɑ̃/Category:French 2-syllable words#PATIENTCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT

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Adjective

patient (feminine patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)Category:French lemmas#PATIENTCategory:French adjectives#PATIENTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. patient

   Antonym: impatient

Noun

patient m (plural patients, feminine patiente)Category:French lemmas#PATIENTCategory:French nouns#PATIENTCategory:French countable nouns#PATIENTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:French masculine nouns#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. patient, outpatient
2. (datedCategory:French dated terms#PATIENT) 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

Adjective

patientCategory:Middle English alternative forms#PATIENTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. alternative form of pacient

Noun

patientCategory:Middle English alternative forms#PATIENTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. alternative form of pacient

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Old French terms borrowed from Latin#PATIENTCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#PATIENT patiens, patientem.

Noun

patient oblique singular, m (oblique plural patienz or patientz, nominative singular patienz or patientz, nominative plural patient)Category:Old French lemmas#PATIENTCategory:Old French nouns#PATIENTCategory:Old French masculine nouns#PATIENTCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Old French masculine nouns#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. (medicineCategory:fro:Medicine#PATIENT) patient

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasiˈenːt/Category:Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT
• IPA^(key): /paˈt͡ʃenːt/Category:Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation#PATIENT (Finland)

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Noun

patient cCategory:Swedish lemmas#PATIENTCategory:Swedish nouns#PATIENTCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PATIENTCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#PATIENTCategory:Pages with entries#PATIENTCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PATIENT

1. a patient

   När man är inlagd på sjukhus så är man en patient

   When you are hospitalized, you are a patient

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#PATIENT

References

• “patient”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “patient”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “patient”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Anagrams

• aptiten