Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Patients” is a form of

patient

/ˈpɛjʃənt/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms patients

  1. adjective (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting. “Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.”
  2. adjective Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent. “patient endeavour”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
  4. noun A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care. “Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.”
  5. noun (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action. “The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.”
  6. noun One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

composed forbearing determined sedulous steady sufferable resistant tolerant affected role patient role

Antonyms

antsy impatient agent doer

Etymology

From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
  2. adjective Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
  3. noun ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
  4. noun A person under medical or surgical treatment; --correlative to physician or nurse.

Etymology [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p.pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “patient”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “patient” (best matches first).

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