patriot

patriot

See also: Patriot

English

Etymology

From Middle French patriote, from Late Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”), from πατρίς (patrís, “father land", "country”), from πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/

Noun

patriot (plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • 1712 (date written), [Alexander] Pope, “Prologue, by Mr. Pope. Spoken by Mr. Wilks.”, in [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475:

     Here Tears ſhall flovv from a more gen'rous Cauſe, / Such Tears as Patriots ſhed for dying Lavvs: […]

   • 1901, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “A Defence of Patriotism”, in The Defendant, London: R. Brimley Johnson, OCLC 12162995, page 125:

     '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, 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.

   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)

     Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

2. (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, “(please specify the page)”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], OCLC 2469480:

     The aim of patriots, therefore, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be allowed to exercise over the community.

Derived terms

• patriotic
• patriotism
• patriotization
• Patriot missile
• paytriot

Translations

person who loves, supports and defends their country

Afrikaans: patriot Albanian: atdhetar (sq) m, atdhetare (sq) f Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: وَطَنِيّ‎ m (waṭaniyy), وَطَنِيَّة‎ f (waṭaniyya) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հայրենասեր (hy) (hayrenaser) Azerbaijani: yurdsevər Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Basque: abertzale (eu) Belarusian: патрыёт m (patryjót), патрыётка f (patryjótka) Bengali: দেশভক্ত (deśôbhôktô) Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: патрио́т (bg) m (patriót), патрио́тка f (patriótka), родолю́бец m (rodoljúbec), родолю́бка m (rodoljúbka) Burmese: မျိုးချစ် (my) (myui:hkyac), ဝံသာနုရက္ခိတ (my) (wamsanu.rakhki.ta.) Catalan: patriota m or f Cherokee: ᎤᎨᏳᎯ (ugeyuhi) Chinese: Mandarin: 愛國者／爱国者 (zh) (àiguózhě) Crimean Tatar: vatanperver Czech: vlastenec m, vlastenka f, patriot m, patriotka f Danish: patriot c Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: patriot (nl) m, vaderlander (nl) m Esperanto: patrioto Estonian: patrioot Faroese: fosturlandsvinur m, føðilandsvinur m Finnish: patriootti (fi) French: patriote (fr) m or f Galician: patriota (gl) m or f Georgian: პატრიოტი (ṗaṭrioṭi), მამულიშვილი (mamulišvili) German: Patriot (de) m, Patriotin (de) f, Vaterlandsfreund m, Vaterlandsfreundin f, Vaterlandsliebhaber m, Vaterlandsliebhaberin f Greek: πατριώτης (el) m (patriótis), πατριώτισσα (el) f (patriótissa) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: פַּטְרִיוֹט‎ (he) m (patri'ot) Hindi: देशभक्त (hi) m (deśbhakt), वतनपरस्त m (vatanparast), देशप्रेमी m (deśapremī) Hungarian: hazafi (hu) Icelandic: föðurlandsvinur (is) m, ættjarðarvinur (is) m Ido: patrioto (io) Indonesian: patriot (id) Irish: tírghráthóir m Italian: patriota (it) m or f Japanese: 愛国者 (あいこくしゃ, aikokusha) Kazakh: патриот (patriot), отансүйгіш (otansüigış) (neologism), отаншыл (otanşyl) (neologism) Khmer: អ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ (nĕək snaehaa ciət) Korean: 애국자(愛國者) (ko) (aegukja) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: نیشتیمان پەروەر‎ (nîştîman perwer) Northern Kurdish: welatparêz (ku), welatperwer (ku), patriyot (ku) Kyrgyz: патриот (patriot), мекенчил (mekençil) Lao: ຜູ້ຮັກຊາດ (phū hak sāt) Latvian: patriots m, patriote f Lithuanian: patriotas (lt) m, patriotė f Macedonian: патрио́т m (patriót), патрио́тка f (patriótka), родољуб m (rodoljub), родољубец m (rodoljubec), родољупка f (rodoljupka) Malay: patriot Manx: graihder çheerey m, dooinney dooie m Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: эх оронч (ex oronč) Norwegian: Bokmål: patriot m Nynorsk: patriot m Occitan: please add this translation if you can Pashto: وطنپال‎ m (watanpāl), وطندوست‎ m (watandost), وطن پرست‎ m (watan-parast) Persian: میهن‌پرست‎ (mihan-parast), میهن‌دوست‎ (mihan-dust), وطن‌پرست‎ (vatan-parast) Polish: patriota (pl) m, patriotka (pl) f Portuguese: patriota (pt) m or f Romanian: patriot (ro) m, patriotă (ro) f Russian: патрио́т (ru) m (patriót), патрио́тка (ru) f (patriótka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: патрѝот m, патрѝотица f, до̏мољӯб m, ро̏дољӯб m, домољубац m, домо̀љупка f, родољубац m, ро̏дољӯпка f Roman: patrìot (sh) m, patrìotica (sh) f, dȍmoljūb (sh) m, domoljubac m, domòljupka (sh) f, rȍdoljūb (sh) m, rodoljubac m, rȍdoljūpka (sh) f Slovak: vlastenec m, vlastenka f, patriot m, patriotka f Slovene: patriot m, patriotinja f, patriotka f, rodoljub m, rodoljubka f, domoljub (sl) m, domoljubka f Spanish: patriota (es) m or f Swedish: patriot (sv) c Tajik: ватандӯст (vatandüst), ватанпарвар (vatanparvar), ватанпараст (tg) (vatanparast) Tatar: ватанчы (tt) (watançı) Thai: ผู้รักชาติ (pûu-rák-châat) Turkish: vatansever (tr), yurtsever (tr) Turkmen: watançy, patriot (tk) Ukrainian: патріо́т m (patriót), патріо́тка f (patriótka) Urdu: وَطَن‌پَرَست‎ m (vatan-parast) Uyghur: ۋەتەنپەرۋەر‎ (wetenperwer) Uzbek: vatanparvar (uz), patriot Vietnamese: người yêu nước, nhà ái quốc Volapük: lomänälan (vo) m or f, hilomänälan m, jilomänälan f Walloon: patriyote (wa) m or f Xhosa: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: פּאַטריאָט‎ m (patryot) Zazaki: waresinayoğ c, welatperwer c, welatsinayoğ c Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

• patriot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Czech

Noun

patriot m

1. patriot

   Synonym: vlastenec

Related terms

• See páter

Further reading

• patriot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• patriot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• patriot in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French patriote, from Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.triˈɔt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

patriot m (plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot
2. (historical, chiefly Netherlands) A republican opponent of the House of Orange-Nassau during the second half of the eighteenth century, in favour of centralisation and administrative rationalisation.
3. (obsolete) compatriot

   Synonyms: landgenoot, medeburger

Derived terms

• patrizot

Descendants

• → Indonesian: patriot

Adjective

patriot (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) patriotic

Inflection

Inflection of patriot
uninflected	patriot
inflected	patriotte
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		patriot
indefinite	m./f. sing.	patriotte
	n. sing.	patriot
	plural	patriotte
definite		patriotte
partitive		patriots

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch patriot, from Middle French patriote, from Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pat̚ˈriɔt̚]
• Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

patriot (first-person possessive patriotku, second-person possessive patriotmu, third-person possessive patriotnya)

1. patriot: a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.

Related terms

• patriotik
• patriotis
• patriotisme

 

Further reading

• “patriot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patrioter, definite plural patriotene)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patriotar, definite plural patriotane)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

From Greek πατριώτης (patriótis) or French patriote or German Patriot.

Noun

patriot m (plural patrioți)

1. patriot

Declension

Declension of patriot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) patriot	patriotul	(niște) patrioți	patrioții
genitive/dative	(unui) patriot	patriotului	(unor) patrioți	patrioților
vocative	patriotule		patrioților

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Patriot, from French patriote, from Latin patriota, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patrǐot/
• Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

patrìot, patriȍt m (Cyrillic spelling патрѝот, патрио̏т)

1. patriot

Declension

Declension of patriot

	singular	plural
nominative	patriot	patrioti
genitive	patriota	patriota
dative	patriotu	patriotima
accusative	patriota	patriote
vocative	patriote	patrioti
locative	patriotu	patriotima
instrumental	patriotom	patriotima

Synonyms

• rȍdoljūb
• dȍmoljūb

References

• “patriot” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Swedish

Noun

patriot c

1. a patriot

Declension

Declension of patriot
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	patriot	patrioten	patrioter	patrioterna
Genitive	patriots	patriotens	patrioters	patrioternas

Derived terms

• lokalpatriot

Related terms

• patriotism

References

• patriot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)