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Patient comes from Middle English pacient ‘able or willing to bear pain or suffering’, and goes back to Latin patior.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatior¹‘to suffer’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatiens¹‘suffering’present participle of patior
3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400pacient¹
4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600patient¹
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pacient¹‘able or willing to bear pain or suffering’
6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1658patient¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English patient
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1658, Dr. Henry More: “Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that…”.