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Latin
Etymology
Derived from pater, patris (“father”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
patrius (feminine patria, neuter patrium, adverb patriē); first/second-declension adjective
- father's, fatherly, paternal
- hereditary; ancestral
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “patrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patrius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- native tongue; vernacular: sermo patrius (Fin. 1. 2. 4)
- (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