khanti = enduring-patience, patient-endurance, or patience-&-endurance?

 

khantī = fem. patience; endurance; tolerance [√kham + tī]

√kham = root. √kham･1 a (tolerate, endure)

pa·tient - adjective = able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

tol·er·ant = adjective - 1. showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

en·dur·ance = noun - the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. "she was close to the limit of her endurance"

for·bear·ance = noun - patient self-control; restraint and tolerance. "forbearance from taking action"

KN Dhp 184: (Sujato, maybe slightly modified)

♦ 184.
♦ khantī paramaṃ tapo titikkhā,	Enduring patience is the highest austerity.
nibbānaṃ VAR paramaṃ vadanti buddhā.	“Nibbana is supreme,” say the Buddhas.
♦ na hi pabbajito parūpaghātī,	He is not a true monk who harms another,
na VAR samaṇo hoti paraṃ viheṭhayanto.	nor a true renunciate who oppresses others.

Thanissaro trans.:

Patient endurance:

the foremost austerity.

Unbinding:

the foremost,

so say the Awakened.

He who injures another

is no contemplative.

He who mistreats another,

no monk.