Patience
PAY-shəns
A virtue name meaning endurance, calmness, and steadfast bearing under trial.
Meaning
Patience is an English virtue name drawn from the Latin root patiens, meaning "bearing" or "enduring." In Christian-name usage, the excerpts show it as a straightforward name that "explains itself," and it was used for both boys and girls in historical records. The core sense is the quality of enduring hardship without complaint.
Origin
EnglishLatinvaries by culture
Fun fact
The excerpts note that Patience was found as both a male and a female name, and one famous bearer was Sir Patience Ward, Lord Mayor of London in 1680–1.