Etymology
From the Middle French compatriot around 1600, from Late Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriotēs, “of the same country”), from πατρίς (patris, “father land", "country”), from πατήρ (pater, “father”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/, /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/, X-SAMPA: /"p{t.ri:.@t/, /"peI.tri.@t/
- (US) IPA: /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/, X-SAMPA: /"peI.tri.@t/
Noun
patriot (plural patriots)
- A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
- Alexander Pope
- Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.
- 1901, G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant, page 166:
- “My country, right or wrong”, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober”.
- 1953, Sydney J. Harris, “Purely Personal Prejudices”, in Strictly Personal[1], Regnery, page 228:
- The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
- (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. S. Mill's On Liberty to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
person who loves, supports and defends their country
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: atdhetar (sq) m, atdhetare (sq) f
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: وطني (ar) (waTanii) m
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- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: abertzale (eu)
- Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: родолюбец (bg) (rodolyubets) f
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: patriota (ca) m and f
- Cherokee: ᎤᎨᏳᎯ (chr) (ugeyuhi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 愛國者 (cmn), 爱国者 (cmn) (àiguózhě)
- Czech: vlastenec (cs) m
- Danish: patriot (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: patriot (nl) m
- Esperanto: patrioto (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: fosturlandsvinur (fo) m, føðilandsvinur (fo) m
- Finnish: patriootti (fi)
- French: patriote (fr) m and f
- German: Patriot (de) m, Patriotin (de) f, Vaterlandsfreund (de) m, Vaterlandsfreundin (de) f, Vaterlandsliebhaber (de) m, Vaterlandsliebhaberin (de) f
- Greek: πατριώτης (el) (patriótis) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: פַּטְרִיוֹט (he) (patri'ot) m
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- Hungarian: hazafi (hu)
- Icelandic: föðurlandsvinur (is) m, ættjarðarvinur (is) m
- Ido: patrioto (io)
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- Irish: tírghráthóir (ga) m
- Italian: patriota (it) m and f
- Japanese: 愛国者 (ja) (aikokusha)
- Khmer: អ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ (km) (neak snaehaa jiet)
- Korean: 애국자 (ko) (aegugja) (愛國者 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: نیشتیمان پهروهر
- Macedonian: патриот (mk) (patriót) m, родољуб (mk) (ródoljub) m, родољубец (mk) (rodoljúbec) m
- Manx: graihder çheerey (gv) m, dooinney dooie (gv) m
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- Norwegian: patriot (no) m
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- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
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- Polish: patriota (pl) m
- Portuguese: patriota (pt) m and f
- Romanian: patriot (ro) m
- Russian: патриот (ru) (patriót) m
- Serbo-Croatian: domoljub m, domoljubac m, rodoljub m, rodoljubac m, patriot (sh) m, патриот (sh)
- Slovak: vlastenec (sk) m, patriot (sk) m
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- Spanish: patriota (es) m and f
- Swedish: patriot (sv) c
- Turkish: vatansever (tr), yurtsever (tr)
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- Volapük: (♂♀) lomänälan (vo), (♂) hilomänälan (vo), (♀) jilomänälan (vo)
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- Yiddish: פּאַטריאָט (yi) (patri'ot) m
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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