compatriot

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French compatriote, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cum (“with”) + patria (“homeland”)

Noun

compatriot (plural compatriots)

1. Somebody from one's own country.
   • (Can we date this quote by Palfrey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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: زَمِيل m (zamīl), مُوَاطِن (muwāṭin)
• Armenian: հայրենակից (hy) (hayrenakicʻ)
• Azerbaijani: həmvətən, həmvətənli, vətəndaş (az), yurddaş
• Belarusian: суайчы́ннік m (suajčýnnik), суайчы́нніца f (suajčýnnica)
• Breton: kenvroad (br) m
• Bulgarian: съоте́чественик (bg) m (sǎotéčestvenik), земля́к m (zemlják)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: krajan m
• Danish: landsmand (da) c
• 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
• Hungarian: honfitárs (hu)
• Italian: compatriota (it) m or f, connazionale (it) m or f, paesano (it) m
• Japanese: 同胞 (ja) (はらから, harakara, どうほう, dōhō), 同国人 (どうこくじん, dōkokujin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 동포 (ko) (dongpo)
• Macedonian: сонародник m (sonarodnik)
• Norwegian: landsmann m

  Nynorsk: landsmann m

• Persian: هموطن (hamvatan)
• Polish: rodak (pl) m, krajan (pl) m, krajanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: compatriota (pt) m or f, compatrício (pt) m, patrício (pt) m
• Romanian: compatriot (ro) m
• Russian: сооте́чественник (ru) m (sootéčestvennik), сооте́чественница (ru) f (sootéčestvennica), земля́к (ru) m (zemlják), земля́чка (ru) f (zemljáčka) (informal)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сународник m, земљак m

  Roman: sunarodnik (sh) m, zemljak (sh) m

• Slovak: krajan m
• Slovene: rojak m
• Spanish: compatriota (es) m or f, paisano (es) m, coterráneo (es) m
• Swedish: landsman (sv) c, landsmaninna (sv) c
• Tatar: ватандаш (tt) (watandaş), илдәш (tt) (ildäş)
• Turkish: vatandaş (tr), hemşehri (tr), memleketli (tr)
• Ukrainian: співвітчи́зник m (spivvitčýznyk), співвітчи́зниця f (spivvitčýznycja)
• Vietnamese: đồng bào (vi)

Adjective

compatriot (comparative more compatriot, superlative most compatriot)

1. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compatriote, Latin compatriota.

Noun

compatriot m (plural compatrioți, feminine equivalent compatrioată)

1. compatriot

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