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As you Latinists will have noticed, the words 'patience' and 'passion' come from the same root: the Latin patior, whose broadest meanings are "to undergo" and "to endure."
Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007
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Nonne et ipse videtur tibi inhiare quodammodo fontibus Salvatoris, vociferari ad Deum, suisque vagitibus clamitare: Domine vim patior, responde pro me [Isaiah 38: 14]?
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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As you Latinists will have noticed, the words 'patience' and 'passion' come from the same root: the Latin patior, whose broadest meanings are "to undergo" and "to endure."
The passion and the patience Mike L 2007
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[5485] Omnia quae patior mala si pensare velit fors,
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It comes initially from the Latin patior, to endure, or to suffer.
Sherwin Nuland on hope Sherwin Nuland 2003
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It comes initially from the Latin patior, to endure, or to suffer.
Sherwin Nuland on hope Sherwin Nuland 2003
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It comes initially from the Latin patior, to endure, or to suffer.
Sherwin Nuland on hope Sherwin Nuland 2003
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III. (in - ior) patior, patī, passus sum, _suffer_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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With patior and sinō, _permit_, _allow_; as, -- nūllō sē implicārī negōtiō passus est, _he did not permit himself to be involved in any difficulty_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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It is interesting to observe that precisely the same doubleness of meaning arises, in the same way, in respect to the word _Passion_, from Latin _patior_, to suffer.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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