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patient en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/
  • [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • (General-American) audio
  • [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃn̩t]
  • /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /ˈpɛjʃənt/ (British, Southern, Standard)

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”).

Meanings

  1. (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
    • 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. 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
    • Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
  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.
    • patient analysis
    • patient endeavour
    • a patient wait
    • 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.
    • 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." 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
  3. (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
    • 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. 1661, John Fell, “Doctor Henry Hammond”, in Christopher Wordsworth, editor, Ecclesiastical Biography, volume 5, published 1810, page 380:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more patient Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most patient Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

antsy · impatient

Deriveds

patient as Job · omnipatient · overpatient · patiently · unpatient · patient zero

Relateds

passion · passionate · passivity · patience · passive

Synonyms

resistant · patient · forbearing · composed · steady · resistant · sufferable · tolerant · sedulous · determined · sufferable

Translations (89)

zza sebırın (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ca pacient (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nb tålmodig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sk trpezlivý (not losing one's temper while waiting) · hy համբերատար (not losing one's temper while waiting) · mi mānawanawa (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nn tolsam (not losing one's temper while waiting) · tr sabırlı (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fi pitkämielinen (constant in pursuit) · ota صبرلی (not losing one's temper while waiting) · uz sabrli (not losing one's temper while waiting) · kk сабырлы (not losing one's temper while waiting) · wa pacyin (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sv tålmodig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · is þolinmóður (not losing one's temper while waiting) · uk терпля́чий (not losing one's temper while waiting) · hu türelmes (not losing one's temper while waiting) · hu kitartó (constant in pursuit) · ang ġeþyldiġ (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fa شکیبنده (not losing one's temper while waiting) · la patiēns (not losing one's temper while waiting) · es paciente (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fr patient (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nb tålsom (not losing one's temper while waiting) · arz صبور (not losing one's temper while waiting) · bg настойчив (constant in pursuit) · uk терпели́вий (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nl geduldig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · vi kiên nhẫn (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nn tolmodig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ja 辛抱強い (not losing one's temper while waiting) · mi manawanui (not losing one's temper while waiting) · hi सहनशील (not losing one's temper while waiting) · cmn 耐心 (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ar صَبُور (not losing one's temper while waiting) · crh çıdamlı (not losing one's temper while waiting) · tg собир (not losing one's temper while waiting) · da tålmodig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ko 인내심 있는 (not losing one's temper while waiting) · de geduldig (not losing one's temper while waiting) · mi manawarahi (not losing one's temper while waiting) · hu állhatatos (constant in pursuit) · ru терпели́вый (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fa صبور (not losing one's temper while waiting) · kk төзімді (not losing one's temper while waiting) · cs trpělivý (not losing one's temper while waiting) · enm pacient (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nrf pâcient (not losing one's temper while waiting) · he סַבְלָנִי (not losing one's temper while waiting) · el υπομονετικός (not losing one's temper while waiting) · gd foighidneach (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sh strpljiv (not losing one's temper while waiting) · be цярплі́вы (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ja 我慢強い (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ko 참을성 있는 (not losing one's temper while waiting) · id sabar (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fa بردبار (not losing one's temper while waiting) · mk трпелив (not losing one's temper while waiting) · it paziente (not losing one's temper while waiting) · tr dayançlı (not losing one's temper while waiting) · kk шыдамды (not losing one's temper while waiting) · cy amyneddgar (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ota صبور (not losing one's temper while waiting) · enm pacient (constant in pursuit) · ja 忍耐強い (not losing one's temper while waiting) · bg търпели́в (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sh стрпљив (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sl potrpežljiv (not losing one's temper while waiting) · sk trpezlivý (constant in pursuit) · eo pacienca (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ja 気が長い (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ms sabar (not losing one's temper while waiting) · pl cierpliwy (not losing one's temper while waiting) · lb gedëlleg (not losing one's temper while waiting) · tg босабр (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fi kärsivällinen (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ko 끈기 있는 (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ht pasyan (not losing one's temper while waiting) · nn tolug (not losing one's temper while waiting) · ro răbdător (not losing one's temper while waiting) · gl paciente (not losing one's temper while waiting) · crh sabırlı (not losing one's temper while waiting) · fa شکیبا (not losing one's temper while waiting) · es pacienzudo (not losing one's temper while waiting) · pt paciente (not losing one's temper while waiting) · crh dayanıqlı (not losing one's temper while waiting) · cmn 耐煩 /耐烦 (not losing one's temper while waiting) · grc μακρόθυμος (not losing one's temper while waiting) · vo sufälik (not losing one's temper while waiting)

patient en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/
  • [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t] (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • (General-American) audio
  • [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpʰeɪ̯ʃn̩t]
  • /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /ˈpɛjʃənt/ (British, Southern, Standard)

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”).

Meanings

  1. A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
    • At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
    • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
    • 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. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    • 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. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
  2. The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
    • The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects. 1982, Paul J. Hopper, Tense-aspect: Between Semantics & Pragmatics, →ISBN:
    • The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
    • 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. 2004, Paul Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, →ISBN, page 292:
  3. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
    • How does a person change from a patient to an agent in shaping and living a course of life? 1994, Larry Cochran, Joan Laub, Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life, →ISBN:
    • 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. 2010, Mohua Banerjee, Anil Seth, Logic and Its Applications: Fourth Indian Conference, ICLA 2011, →ISBN, page 7:
    • 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. 1999, Lloyd P. Gerson, Aristotle: Logic and metaphysics, →ISBN, page 127:
    • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:
    • 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. 1988, Sarah Waterlow, Sarah Broadie, Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics, →ISBN, page 159:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
patients Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

doer · agent

Coordinates

rheme · subject · theme · object · case

Deriveds

transpatient · patient of something · patient under investigation · telepatient · cyberpatient · patientness · pseudopatient · mental patient · trans patient · patienthood · interpatient · patientcare · patient information leaflet · patientless · copatient · inpatient · heartsink patient · superpatient · nonpatient · index patient · patientlike · intrapatient · walking patient · patient contact · xenopatient · outpatient · patientive · patient role · patient zero

Relateds

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Translations (191)

hi रोगी (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uk паціє́нт (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · st mokudi (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ur مَرِیض (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hy հիվանդ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · eo pacientino (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hu páciens (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · is sjúklingur (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ms pesakit (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh болѐснӣк (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uk хво́ра (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mr रोगी (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lt pacientas (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · gl paciente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh пацѝјентица (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh bolèsnica (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh пацѝјент (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · prs بیمَار (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uz patsiyent (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · alt оору кижи (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bg бо́лна (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ro pacientă (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ko 병인 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ru больно́й (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pl pacjentka (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · af geduldig (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · eo paciento (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mr रुग्ण (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ceb pasyente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lv pacients (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ta நோயாளி (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tg касал (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · de Patientin (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · oc pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fr malade (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bg бо́лен (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · eu gaixo (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · de Kranker (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mk болен (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · kmr nexweş (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tl pasyente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uk хво́рий (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tr hasta (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mn ᠡᠮᠴᠢᠯᠡᠭᠦᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ug بىمار (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · de Patiens (linguistics) · cmn 病患 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bn রোগী (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ar مَفْعُول (linguistics) · fo sjúklingur (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · af pasiënt (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · el ασθενής (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lzz ზაბუნი (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bg пацие́нтка (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cy claf (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mk болна (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tk pasiýent (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uz kasal (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cs pacientka (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hu beteg (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sl bolnica (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ky оору (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fi patientti (linguistics) · ky бейтап (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hy պացիենտ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ar مَرِيضَة (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh болѐсница (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uk паціє́нтка (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fa-ira مَریض (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · my လူနာ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sl pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pl chora (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lo ຄົນເຈັບ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sk chorý (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · nb pasient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mn эмчлүүлэгч (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · km អ្នកជំងឺ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be пацые́нтка (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hi मरीज़ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · yi פּאַציענט (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · km អាពាធិក (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sl bolnik (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pt paciente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bo ནད་པ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · za bouxbingh (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh pacìjentica (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be хво́ры (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pl pacjens (linguistics) · sk chorá (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · prs مَرِیض (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ky пациент (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · te వ్యాధిగ్రస్తుడు (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · af siek (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lo ຄົນໄຂ້ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · id pasien (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh pacìjent (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ps مريض (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sv patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hi बीमार (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · zza nêweş (diq) (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tg мариз (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · kmr xeste (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · gl doente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mn өвчтөн (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · wa malåde (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be спале́чнік (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ru пацие́нтка (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sk pacientka (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · hy բուժառու (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pl pacjent (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · chr ᎤᏢᎩ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · it paziente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cs nemocný (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lt pacientė (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mi tūroro (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ja 病人 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · bg пацие́нт (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ln mobeli (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · kk емделуші (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · de Kranke (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ca pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uz xasta (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · et ravialune (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ru пацие́нт (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be хво́рая (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fr patiente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ru па́циенс (linguistics) · izh läsivä (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fr patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sk pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · eu eri (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ms ڤساکيت (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · nn pasient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ru больна́я (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be спале́чніца (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lo ຄິລານະ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mn ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠨ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sq pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · zza bêmer (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ur بِیمار (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · tg бемор (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cs nemocná (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · th ผู้ป่วย (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · es paciente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fro patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · nl patiënt (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · pl chory (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mk пацие́нт (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ccc ijchapyani (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ka პაციენტი (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · frm patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · it paziente (linguistics) · ln mokoni (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ar مَرِيض (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cmn 患者 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · it pazienti (linguistics) · lv paciente (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ko 환자 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · te రోగి (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · mk пацие́нтка (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · be пацые́нт (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ja 患者 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh пацѝјенткиња (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ps بيمار (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · de Patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fa-ira بیمار (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · he פַּצְיֶנְט (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · he מטופל \ מְטֻפָּל (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · th คนไข้ (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · se buohcci (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ug كېسەل (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · wa pacyin (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sl pacientka (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · alt оору (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cs pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh bolèsnīk (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · cmn 受事 (linguistics) · cmn 病人 (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ro pacient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · vi bệnh nhân (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uli choatemwaay (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · et patsient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · fi potilas (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · uz bemor (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · km រោគី (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · da patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · nl patiënte (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · az xəstə (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · ga othar (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · lb Patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor) · sh pacìjentkinja (someone who receives treatment from a doctor)