patria

From Latin patria.

patria f (plural patries)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

From Latin patria.

patria f (plural patrias)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

• “patria”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.trja/, /ˈpa.tri.a/^[1]
• Rhymes: -atrja, -atria
• Hyphenation: pà‧tria, pà‧tri‧a

From Latin patria (“fatherland”).

patria f (plural patrie)

1. one's native land or country
2. homeland, fatherland

• paese

• madrepatria

patria

1. feminine singular of patrio

• parati, parità, patirà, pirata, rapati, rapita, tarpai

Substantive noun from an ellipsis of the collocative term terra patria ("paternal/hereditary land"), itself from terra (“land, country”) and patrius (“fatherly, paternal, hereditary, ancestral”). Compare origin of Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ, “basilica”), from Byzantine Greek term βασιλική στοά (basilikḗ stoá, “royal building”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) and πατρίς (patrís, “place of one's ancestors”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tri.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tri.a/,

patria f (genitive patriae); first declension

1. country; fatherland (literally), native land
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.2.13:

     Dulce et decōrum est prō patriā morī.

     Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's fatherland.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.666:

     Ō quantum patriae sanguinis ille dēdit!

     Oh how much blood he gave for his native land!

2. home

First-declension noun.

• (home): domus

patria

1. inflection of patrius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

patriā

1. ablative feminine singular of patrius

• “patria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • to be (very) patriotic: patriae amantem (amantissimum) esse (Att. 9. 22)
    
  • to recall from exile: aliquem (in patriam) restituere
    
  • to return from exile: in patriam redire
    
  • (ambiguous) native place: urbs patria or simply patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to die for one's country: mortem occumbere pro patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to sacrifice oneself for one's country: vitam profundere pro patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish a man from his native land: e patria exire iubere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in exile: patria carere
    
• patria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

patria f (please provide plural)

1. homeland

patria f (plural patrias)

1. Obsolete spelling of pátria.

• IPA^(key):

patria

1. third-person plural present of patriť

• IPA^(key): /ˈpatɾja/

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• Rhymes: -atɾja
• Syllabification: pa‧tria

From Latin patria (“fatherland”).

patria f (plural patrias)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

   Synonym: terruño

patria

1. feminine singular of patrio

• “patria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10