Translation
to suffer, endure; to allow, permit
Examples
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He suffered many evils.
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He is enduring great pain.
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We cannot endure these things any longer.
patiar .
I shall not allow you to go away.
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The soldiers went through a great deal in the war.
Patior, pati, passus sum is a deponent of the third conjugation in -io, so it is passive in form and active in meaning: passus est is "he suffered", never "he was suffered". Two senses, and the second surprises people - with an accusative and infinitive it means "allow": non patiar te abire.
Everything English has from it runs through the participle passus: passion, passive, patient, compassion, and the Passion, which is simply "the suffering". The Creed's passus sub Pontio Pilato is this verb. Do not confuse it with pateo, "lie open", which is a separate second conjugation verb: patet is from pateo, patitur from patior, and they share nothing but a look.
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