compatriot

English

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”) + patria (“homeland”)

Noun

compatriot (plural compatriots)

1. Somebody from one's own country; a fellow-countryman.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, BBC Sport:

     However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

Translations

fellow countryman

• Albanian: bashkatdhetar (sq) m
• Breton: kenvroad (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同胞 (cmn) (tóngbāo), 國人 (cmn), 国人 (cmn) (guórén)

• Czech: krajan (cs) m
• Dutch: landgenoot m, landgenote f
• Esperanto: samlandano (eo)
• Finnish: maanmies (fi)
• French: compatriote (fr) m and f
• German: Landsmann (de) m, Landsmännin (de) f
• Italian: compatriota (it) m and f

• Japanese: 同胞 (ja) (はらから, harakara, どうほう, dōhō), 同国人 (ja) (どうこくじん, dōkokujin)
• Polish: rodak (pl) m
• Portuguese: compatriota (pt) m, compatrício (pt) m, patrício (pt) m
• Romanian: compatriot (ro) m
• Russian: соотечественник (ru) (sootéčestvennik) m , соотечественница (ru) (sootéčestvennica) f , (also a person from the same area) земляк (ru) (zemlják) m , землячка (ru) (zemljáčka) f 
• Spanish: compatriota (es) m and f
• Swedish: landsman (sv) c, landsmaninna (sv) c
• Tatar: ватандаш (tt) (vatandaš)
• Turkish: vatandaş (tr), hemşehri (tr), memleketli (tr)

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

1. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
   • Thomson

     She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, / Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Romanian

Noun

compatriot m (plural compatrioti)

1. compatriot