patior

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently denominative from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁-tós, participle of *peh₁- (to hurt). Cognate with paene, paeniteō, pēnūria, Ancient Greek πῆμα (pêma), πηρός (pērós), Old English feond (devil, enemy) (English fiend), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 (faian, to blame), Proto-Slavic *patiti (to suffer, to fare misfortune).

Pronunciation

Verb

patior (present infinitive patī, perfect active passus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent

  1. (transitive) to suffer, endure, tolerate
    Synonyms: tolerō, patiō, sufferō, subeō, perferō, perpetior, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, ferō, dūrō, sustineō, sustentō
    • 43 BCEc. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.157-158:
      tum patitur cultus ager et renovātur arātrō
      That is when the field endures cultivation, and is renewed by the plough.
      [Note: This verse by the poet Ovid can endure a more figurative translation or permit a more literal reading of the word patitur.]
  2. (transitive) to allow, acquiesce, permit, submit
    Synonyms: permittō, admittō
    Patere lēgem quam ipse fēcistī / tulistī.
    Submit to the law which you yourself made / proposed.
  3. (intransitive) to exist, live
    Pati sine regno
    To live without a king.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old French: pader
  • Catalan: patir
  • French: pâtir
  • Occitan: patir
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: patiti

Reflexes of an assumed variant *patīre:

  • Balkan Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Istriot: padì
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan:
      Auvergnat: padir
      Vivaro-Alpine: [pådyi]
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Portuguese: padecer
    • Old Spanish: padir padescer

References

Further reading

  • patior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • patior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • patior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to suffer wrong: iniuriam ferre, pati
    • to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
    • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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