The corpus record — Latin

impatientia

impatientia · f

Unwillingness

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Where it lives

De Patientia 12 · 26.5/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

impătĭentĭa — Lewis & Short

impătĭentĭa (inp-), ae, f.impatiens.

I Unwillingness or inability to bear any thing, want of endurance, impatience (post-Aug.).

(a) With gen.: nauseae, Suet. Calig. 23 fin.: frigorum, Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77: aetas extrema, fessa mente, retinet silentii impatientiam, Tac. A. 4, 52: caritatis, id. ib. 13, 21: Veneris, i. e. impatience, App. M. 2, p. 121.—

(b) Absol.: ne ipse visendo ejus tormenta ad impatientiam dilaberetur, Tac. A. 15, 63: culpa impatientiae, Gell. 1, 13, 3. —

II Insensibility, impassibility, apathy, as a transl. of the Gr. a)pa/qeia, Sen. Ep. 9, 1.

In the wild

impatientiam Tertullian, De Patientia 12
impatientiam Tertullian, De Patientia 5
inpatientiam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.13
impatientiam Tacitus, Annales 4.p52
impatientiam Tertullian, De Patientia 5
impatientiam Tertullian, De Patientia 5

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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