https://english4today.com/wp-content/uploads/patient-e4t-podcast.m4a Question from English4.today member Anna in Germany:“Why is a medical ‘patient‘ called a ‘patient‘ and what does it have to do with the adjective ‘patient‘ ?”Hi, Anna. That’s a really interesting question! What I love about questions from our members is that they often bring up English language topics that, as a native speaker, you haven’t thought about yourself.Let’s have a look at the word patient as a noun and as an adjective:* NOUN: He is a patient of Doctor Buller.* ADJECTIVE: I have had to wait for an hour. I think I am very patient.Anna, the word ‘patient‘ comes from the Latin originally. In Latin the wordpatiensis the present participle ofpati(to suffer or endure) – so you can see immediately how the modern English word ‘patient‘, someone suffering from an illness or injury and being cared for by a medical professional, gets its meaning.When ‘patient‘ is used as an adjective, as in ‘he is...