patience

• n.我慢、忍耐、忍耐、寛容

ラテン語のpati, 耐える, 耐える, からきており、語源的にはpassion, 受動的, すなわち我慢, 忍耐, 忍耐と同じである。

patience (n.)

c. 1200, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "patience, endurance, submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun formed from the adjective patientem (nominative patiens) "bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant," but also "firm, unyielding, hard," used of persons as well as of navigable rivers, present participle of pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE root *pe(i)- "to damage, injure, hurt" (see passion).

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]

Meaning "constancy in effort" is attested from 1510s. Meaning "card game for one person" is from 1816.

1. Non-violence and patience are the central tenets of their faith.

非暴力と忍耐は彼らの信仰の核心原則である。

2.Her husband was sympathetic at first but his patience soon wore thin.

最初は夫が同情していたが、やがて忍耐力を失った。

3.It was exacting work and required all his patience .

仕事は大変で、彼には大きな忍耐力が必要だ。

4.I 've had enough—there are limits even for the patience of a saint！

もううんざりだ——聖人でも我慢には限界がある！

5.We would like to thank them for their patience and understanding.

私たちは彼らの忍耐と理解に感謝しなければならない。