patitur

Patitur is a Latin verb form meaning “he suffers” or “he endures.” It is the third-person singular present indicative of the deponent verb pati, whose forms are passive in appearance but active in meaning. In usage patitur describes physical, emotional, or moral endurance and can be used with a direct object in the accusative to specify what is endured (for example, patitur dolorem “he suffers pain” or patitur cruciatus “he endures torture”).

Grammar and principal parts: pati is the present infinitive, and patior, patiris, patitur, patimur, patimini, patiuntur are the present indicative forms. As a deponent verb of the third conjugation, its imperfect and future tenses mirror the passive morphology but carry active meaning (e.g., patiebar, patiebaris, patiebatur…; patiar, patieris, patietur…). The perfect system uses the passive participle passus with sum, giving forms such as patitus sum for “I have suffered” (though the standard perfect is verba of the deponent construction with passus sum). The present participle is patiens, meaning “suffering” or “patient,” and the noun patientia/is relates to endurance or patience.

Etymology and derivatives: pati comes from a Proto-Italic root related to endurance. The Latin noun patientia, from the same root, yields the English word patience. In philosophical and religious Latin, patior and its derivatives appear in discussions of endurance, fortitude, and acceptance of hardship.

Patitur thus represents a common Latin expression of endurance within deponent verbal forms, illustrating how form and meaning diverge in Latin grammar.