Talk:patient

I would add the Latin tranlation "patiens" myself but I'm not good with the markup. --Logomachist 19:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Now added. --EncycloPetey 19:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2015

This entry has survived Wiktionary's verification process (permalink).

Please do not re-nominate for verification without comprehensive reasons for doing so.

---

patient

Rfv-sense — Noun sense One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. The undated citation has been repeated by dictionaries since Johnson and I can't find the original source. — Pingku^dimmi 09:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I can't find your original source for that undated citation in a machine-readable version, but I found other cites from the same work. Also, there are a number of other citations out there to support this meaning, which seems related to the linguistic/grammer meaning (sense 2). It is typically (but not always -- see the 1994 cite) found in philosophy, and traces back to Aristotle:

Kiwima (talk) 17:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Looks good.— Pingku^dimmi 03:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)