The word "patience" comes from the Latin word patientia, meaning "endurance", "submission", or "suffering".   This root traces back to the verb pati, meaning "to suffer or endure," and further back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to hurt".  It entered Middle English via the Old French word pacience around the 12th century, meaning "sufferance" or the willingness to bear adversity.  

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the noun patience in English was from around 1225 and was found in the early English religious guide Ancrene Riwle (or Ancrene Wisse), which was written for anchoresses.  It had entered Middle English spelled pacience and its core idea was calm endurance under suffering.  In the late 1300s it shifted to calmness in waiting for something to happen, and in 1816 it was used to describe a single-player card game (solitaire).  The word patient (recorded initially as an adjective and noun) first appeared in English around 1350 and found in the religious text Apocalypse St. John: A Version.  The verb form of patience was first recorded in 1596 by writer Thomas Nashe.  

7 minutes ago, Paladin said:

I've noticed that when the events in a story are calm readers often comment in terms of the calm before the storm. Patience is required while waiting for the story to reveal all. 

Brings to mind a popular saying, "Once bitten twice shy".

2 hours ago, drpaladin said:

Once bitten you learn to run faster.

Now this one brings to mind, something most of us have heard before, "Location, location, location."

I live in Montreal, a bee/wasp sting or being bitten when I ten years old by a neighbors' puppy dog called, 'Happy', were my worst case scenarios.

Now to the other extreme, Australia, once bitten, if you survive, don't do whatever you did, again, if that means running faster, hell yeah!! With all of the possible dangerous fauna there, good luck. I know, you know the obvious ones, but consider the two I have listed below as, who would of thought or scary as hell:

Platypus venom and spurs - Australian Platypus Conservancy

“They're equipped with 15cm claws, can run at speeds of 50kph, clear 2m when jumping and deliver a mean kick – just how worried should I be?” | Discover Wildlife