compatriot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/, /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/

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Noun

compatriot (plural compatriots)

1. Somebody from one's own country.
   • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England:

     the distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America

   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

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

Synonyms

• fellow citizen
• fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman

Translations

somebody from one's own country

• Albanian: bashkatdhetar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوَاطِن (muwāṭin), مُوَاطِنَة (ar) f (muwāṭina), زَمِيل m (zamīl), زَمِيلَة f (zamīla)
• Armenian: հայրենակից (hy) (hayrenakicʻ)
• Azerbaijani: həmvətən, həmvətənli, vətəndaş (az), yurddaş
• Belarusian: суайчы́ннік m (suajčýnnik), суайчы́нніца f (suajčýnnica), зямля́к m (zjamlják), зямля́чка f (zjamljáčka)
• Breton: kenvroad (br) m
• Bulgarian: съоте́чественик (bg) m (sǎotéčestvenik), съотече́ственичка f (sǎotečéstvenička), съотече́ственица f (sǎotečéstvenica), земля́к m (zemlják), земля́чка f (zemljáčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同胞 (zh) (tóngbāo), 國人／国人 (zh) (guórén)

• Czech: krajan (cs) m, krajanka (cs) f
• Danish: landsmand (da) c, landsmandinde f
• Dutch: landgenoot (nl) m, landgenote (nl) f
• Esperanto: samlandano
• Estonian: kaasmaalane
• Finnish: maanmies (fi)
• French: compatriote (fr) m or f
• Galician: compatriota m or f
• Georgian: თანამემამულე (tanamemamule)
• German: Landsmann (de) m, Landsmännin (de) f, Landsfrau (de) f, Volksgenosse (de) m, Volksgenossin f (obsolete, someone belonging to the same ethnicity, caution with the term)
• Greek: συμπατριώτης (el) m (sympatriótis)
• Hindi: स्वदेशवासी m (svadeśvāsī), देश-भाई m (deś-bhāī)
• Hungarian: honfitárs (hu)
• Indonesian: kompatriot (id)
• Italian: compatriota (it) m or f, connazionale (it) m or f, paesano (it) m, paesana f
• Japanese: 同胞 (ja) (はらから, harakara, どうほう, dōhō), 同国人 (どうこくじん, dōkokujin)
• Kazakh: отандас (otandas)
• Khmer: មិត្តរួមជាតិ (mɨt ruəm ciət)
• Korean: 동포(同胞) (ko) (dongpo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hemwelatî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мекендеш (mekendeş)
• Lao: ເພື່ອນຮ່ວມຊາດ (phư̄an hūam sāt)
• Latvian: tautietis m, tautiete f
• Lithuanian: kraštietis m, tėvynainis m
• Macedonian: сонародник m (sonarodnik), сонародничка f (sonarodnička)
• Manx: co-heeragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landsmann (no) m, landsmanninne m or f

  Nynorsk: landsmann m

• Old English: ġelanda m
• Pashto: هموطن m (hamwatán), هېوادوال m (hewādwā́l), وطندار m, وطنوال m (watanwãl)
• Persian: هموطن (hamvatan), هم‌میهن (ham-mihan)
• Polish: rodak (pl) m, rodaczka (pl) f, krajan (pl) m, krajanka (pl) f, kompatriota (pl) m, kompatriotka f
• Portuguese: compatriota (pt) m or f, compatrício (pt) m, patrício (pt) m
• Romanian: compatriot (ro) m, compatrioată (ro) f
• Russian: сооте́чественник (ru) m (sootéčestvennik), сооте́чественница (ru) f (sootéčestvennica), земля́к (ru) m (zemlják), земля́чка (ru) f (zemljáčka) (informal)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сународник m, сународња̀киња f, зѐмља̄к m, земља̀киња f

  Roman: sunarodnik (sh) m, sunarodnjàkinja (sh) f, zèmljāk (sh) m, zemljàkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: krajan m, krajanka f
• Slovene: rojak m, rojakinja f
• Spanish: compatriota (es) m or f, paisano (es) m, coterráneo (es) m
• Swedish: landsman (sv) c or m, landsmaninna (sv) c or f
• Tagalog: kababayan
• Tajik: ҳамватан (tg) (hamvatan)
• Tatar: ватандаш (tt) (watandaş), илдәш (tt) (ildäş)
• Thai: เพื่อนร่วมชาติ (pʉ̂ʉan rûuam châat)
• Turkish: vatandaş (tr), hemşehri (tr), memleketli (tr)
• Turkmen: watandaş
• Ukrainian: співвітчи́зник m (spivvitčýznyk), співвітчи́зниця f (spivvitčýznycja), земля́к m (zemlják), земля́чка f (zemljáčka), края́нин m (krajányn), края́нка f (krajánka)
• Uzbek: vatandosh (uz)
• Vietnamese: đồng bào (vi)
• Yiddish: לאַנדסמאַן m (landsman), דאָרפֿמאַן m (dorfman)

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

1. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
   • 1736, [James] Thomson, The Prospect: Being the Fifth Part of Liberty. A Poem, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 8, lines 71–72:

     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.
(See the entry for “compatriot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, Latin compatriota.

Noun

compatriot m (plural compatrioți, feminine equivalent compatrioată)

1. compatriot

   Synonym: simpatriot

Declension

Declension of compatriot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) compatriot	compatriotul	(niște) compatrioți	compatrioții
genitive/dative	(unui) compatriot	compatriotului	(unor) compatrioți	compatrioților
vocative	compatriotule		compatrioților

Further reading

• compatriot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)