'Patience' is literally 'the capacity to suffer without breaking' — from Latin 'pati' (to endure).
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
From Old French "pacience" (patience, sufferance), from Latin "patientia" (endurance, submission, suffering), from "patiēns," present participle of "patī" (to suffer, to endure), from PIE *peh₂- (to protect, to feed, though the semantic path to "suffer" is debated; some reconstruct a separate root *peth₂- meaning to suffer). Latin "patī" produced a substantial English word family: "patient" (one who suffers/endures), "passion" (from "passio," suffering — originally Christ's suffering), "passive" (receiving action, from "passīvus"), "compatible" (able to suffer together), and "impatient." The connection between
'Patience' and 'passion' come from the same root — Latin 'patī' (to suffer). Patience is the ability to suffer calmly. Passion is intense suffering (the Passion of Christ is his suffering, not his enthusiasm). The connection reveals the original meaning of both: they are not opposites but