stamina

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The physical or mental energy to keep doing something tiring over a long time.

   He has a lot of stamina, which is why he can run for hours.

Simplified etymology

Stamina entered English in the late 17th century meaning the essential qualities of something and had developed its modern sense of staying power by 1726. It is the Latin plural of stamen, meaning the warp of a loom or a thread, including the thread that the Fates supposedly spun to determine the length of a person's life.

From Latin stāmina, plural of stāmen.

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