“Caritas patiens est, benigna est” is how the Vulgate renders 1 Corinthians 13:4, the start of Paul’s description of love: love is patient, love is kind. The reader’s text is the Vulgate as printed at Rome in 1598, which spells the word with an h, chāritās, so that is how it appears below.
Patiēns is a present participle used as an adjective, and benigna is an ordinary adjective, both with est and both agreeing with chāritās. The sentence goes on in short clauses, each opening with nōn, and ends with four verbs that all take omnia as their object: suffert, crēdit, spērat, sustinet. Aemulātur is a deponent verb, passive in form and active in sense. Tap the words to check each one.
Paul · 1 Corinthians 13:4
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