Pacientams

Pacientams is the dative plural form of the Lithuanian noun pacients, meaning patient. In Lithuanian grammar, paciento is the genitive singular, pacientui is the dative singular, and pacientams is the dative plural. As a dative plural form, pacientams denotes the recipients or beneficiaries of an action, typically translated as “to the patients” or “for the patients.”

In usage, pacientams appears in medical and public-health contexts to indicate services, programs, or actions directed toward patients. For example, a sentence like “Programa skirta pacientams” conveys that the program is intended for patients. Another example is “Priemonės teikiamos pacientams,” meaning the measures are provided to or for the patients. The form is commonly found in official texts, patient information materials, and healthcare communications.

Etymology and related forms: pacients is a loanword in Lithuanian from the broader medical vocabulary, ultimately tracing back to Latin roots such as patiens, and has parallels in other languages (for example, Polish pacjent or French patient in medical usage). The Lithuanian system extends pacients through cases and numbers to form pacientos, pacientui, paciençu, and pacients, with pacients forming the root for the dative plural pacientoams.

See also: patient (in English), paciento (genitive singular form in Lithuanian), and other inflected forms of pacients.