pacience

From pacienco (“patience”) +‎ -e (“adverb”).

• IPA^(key): [pat͡siˈent͡se]
• Rhymes: -ent͡se
• Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧en‧ce

pacience

1. patiently

• paciens, pacyence, patience

Borrowed from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːsiˈɛns(ə)/, /ˈpaːsjɛns(ə)/

pacience (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. patience dock (Rumex patientia)

• English: patience

• “pācience, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Latin patientia.

pacience oblique singular, f (nominative singular pacience)

1. patience

• pacient / patient

• French: patience
• Norman: pâcienche
• → Middle English: pacience, paciens, pacyence, patience
  • English: patience