protocitizen

English

Etymology

proto- +‎ citizen

Noun

protocitizen (plural protocitizens)

1. A person whose social status is an early approximation to the later idea of a citizen.
   • 2016, Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011, page 66:

     […] the transformation of Jewish serfs into permanent cultivators of national land as protocitizens.