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): /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/, /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.t(ʃ)ɹi.ət/

Noun

patriot (plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • Alexander Pope

     Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

   • 1901, Chesterton, G. K., 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, Harris, Sydney J., “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.

   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[2]

     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.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of J. S. Mill's On Liberty to this entry?)

Derived terms

Derived terms

patriotic patriotism

patriotization Patriot missile

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)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հայրենասեր (hy) ‎(hayrenaser)
• Azeri: vətənpərvər, patriot
• Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: abertzale (eu)
• Belarusian: патрыёт m ‎(patryjót), патрыётка f ‎(patryjótka)
• Bengali: দেশভক্ত ‎(deśbhôkt)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: родолю́бец f ‎(rodoljúbec), патрио́т (bg) m ‎(patriót)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: patriota m, f
• Cherokee: ᎤᎨᏳᎯ ‎(ugeyuhi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛國者 (zh), 爱国者 (zh) ‎(àiguózhě)

• Crimean Tatar: vatanperver
• Czech: vlastenec m
• Danish: patriot c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: patriot (nl) m
• Esperanto: patrioto
• Estonian: patrioot
• Faroese: fosturlandsvinur m, føðilandsvinur m
• Finnish: patriootti (fi)
• French: patriote (fr) m, f
• Georgian: პატრიოტი ‎(ṗaṭrioṭi)
• German: Patriot (de) m, Patriotin f, Vaterlandsfreund m, Vaterlandsfreundin f, Vaterlandsliebhaber m, Vaterlandsliebhaberin f
• Greek: πατριώτης (el) m ‎(patriótis)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: פַּטְרִיוֹט (he) m ‎(patri'ot)
• Hindi: देशभक्त (hi) m ‎(deśbhakt)
• Hungarian: hazafi (hu)
• Icelandic: föðurlandsvinur (is) m, ættjarðarvinur (is) m
• Ido: patrioto (io)
• Irish: tírghráthóir m
• Italian: patriota (it) m, f
• Japanese: 愛国者 ‎(あいこくしゃ, aikokusha)

• Khmer: អ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ ‎(neak snaehaa jiet)
• Korean: 애국자 (ko) ‎(aegukja) (愛國者 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نیشتیمان په‌روه‌ر

• Latvian: patriots m
• Lithuanian: patriotas (lt) m
• Macedonian: патрио́т m ‎(patriót), родољуб m ‎(ródoljub), родољу́бец m ‎(rodoljúbec)
• Manx: graihder çheerey m, dooinney dooie m
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: patriot m
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: میهن‌پرست ‎(mihan-parast), میهن‌دوست ‎(mihan-dust)
• Polish: patriota (pl) m
• Portuguese: patriota (pt) m, f
• Romanian: patriot (ro) m
• Russian: патрио́т (ru) m ‎(patriót), патрио́тка (ru) f ‎(patriótka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: патриот m

  Roman: domoljub (sh) m, domoljubac m, rodoljub (sh) m, rodoljubac m, patriot (sh) m

• Slovak: vlastenec m, patriot m
• Slovene: patriot m, patriotinja f, patriotka f, rodoljub m, rodoljubka f, domoljub (sl) m, domoljubka f
• Spanish: patriota (es) m, f
• Swedish: patriot (sv) c
• Tajik: ватандӯст ‎(vatandüst), ватанпарвар ‎(vatanparvar)
• Thai: ผู้รักชาติ
• Turkish: vatansever (tr), yurtsever (tr)
• Turkmen: watançy, patriot (tk)
• Ukrainian: патріо́т m ‎(patriót), патріо́тка f ‎(patriótka)
• Uzbek: vatanparvar (uz), patriot
• Vietnamese: người yêu nước, nhà ái quốc
• Volapük: (♂♀) lomänälan (vo), (♂) hilomänälan, (♀) jilomänälan
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: פּאַטריאָט m ‎(patryot)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

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

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Pronunciation

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Noun

patriot m (plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot

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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