păți

• пэци (păți) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *patīre, from Latin patī.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡si/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: pă‧ți

a păți (third-person singular present pățește or (archaic or regional) pate, past participle pățit) 4th conjugation

1. (ambitransitive or catenative) to have something, chiefly negative or sometimes neutral, happen to oneself

   Știi ce am pățit azi?

   Do you know what happened to me today?

   (literally, “Do you know what I had happen to me today?”)

   Minerii au pățit și să rămână fără lumină.

   The miners have also [on various occasions] been left without light.

   (literally, “The miners have also had it happen to them to be left without light.”)

   Așa merită să pățească cine încalcă legea.

   This is what those breaking the law deserve.

   (literally, “He who breaks the law deserves to have [it] happen to him thusly.”)

   Fabrica a fost evacuată după ce cineva a pățit un accident.

   The factory was evacuated after someone had an accident happen to himself.

2. (obsolete, ambitransitive) to experience trouble, suffer [until early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: îndura, pătimi, răbda

In its most common usage, transitive păți usually receives objects in the form of subordinate sentences or various interrogative or negative pronouns, and less commonly in the form of a noun. When intransitive, păți is usually in reference to adverbs of manner, anaphoric (așa, astfel) or interrogative (cum), and less commonly to regular adverbs (in which case transitive use with placeholder o would be more usual).

• pacient
• pasiune

• “păți”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1972), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 8, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 348–349

• piță, țipă