apatride
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French apatride. Ultimately from Byzantine Greek ἄπατρις (ápatris, “without country”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌaː.paːˈtri.də/
- Hyphenation: apa‧tri‧de
- Rhymes: -idə
Adjective
apatride (not comparable)
- stateless, without citizenship or nationality
- Synonym: staatloos
Inflection
| Inflection of apatride | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | apatride | |||
| inflected | apatride | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | apatride | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | apatride | ||
| n. sing. | apatride | |||
| plural | apatride | |||
| definite | apatride | |||
| partitive | apatrides | |||
Noun
apatride m (plural apatriden)
- A stateless, displaced person.
- Synonym: staatloze
French
Etymology
From a- + patrie + -ide. See also Byzantine Greek ἄπατρις (ápatris, “without country”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pa.tʁid/
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Adjective
apatride (plural apatrides)
- (law) stateless (without a state or nationality)
Descendants
- → Spanish: apátrida
Further reading
- “apatride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- dérapait