sufferer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suffer/ˈsʌfə(r)/

▶verb

• 1 experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).

  ■ (suffer from) be affected by or subject to (an illness or ailment).

  ■ become or appear worse in quality.

  ■ archaic undergo martyrdom or execution.

• 2 archaic tolerate.

  ■ allow to do something.

– derivatives
sufferable adjective,
sufferer noun.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. suffrir, from L. sufferre, from sub- ‘from below’ + ferre ‘to bear’.