The story
- Latin · derived fromimpatientia
- Old French · derived fromimpacience
- Middle English · inherited fromimpacience
- English todayimpatience
Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
Words from the same roots
Latinimpatientia all →
impatiency
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.