Latin

patior

‘to suffer’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin patior.

13 English words in this record descend from Latin patior, most familiar first.

• patient ← pacient ← pacient ← patiens
• passion ← passioun ← passiō
• patience ← pacience ← pacience ← patientia ← patiens
• compatible ← compatibilis ← compator
• compassion ← compassioun ← compassio ← compati
• compatibility ← compatibilitās ← compatibilis ← patibilis
• compassionate ← compassionné ← compassionner ← compassion ← compassiō
• impatient ← impacient ← impatiēns ← patiēns
• impatiens ← patiēns
• passible ← passibilis
• passionary ← passyonarye ← passiōnārium ← passiō
• passival ← passīvus

More words from patior

• perpession

Etymograph / Latin patior