patriot

See also: Patriot

English

Etymology

From Middle French patriote, from Late Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”), from πατρίς (patrís, “father land", "country”), from πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/

  • Audio (Texas):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpɛt.ɹi.ət/

Noun

patriot (plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • 1712 (date written), [Alexander] Pope, “Prologue, by Mr. Pope. Spoken by Mr. [Robert] Wilks.”, in [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC:

     Here Tears ſhall flovv from a more gen'rous Cauſe, / Such Tears as Patriots ſhed for dying Lavvs: […]

   • 1901, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “A Defence of Patriotism”, in The Defendant, London: R. Brimley Johnson, →OCLC, page 125:

     'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

   • 1953, Sydney J. Harris, “Purely Personal Prejudices”, in Strictly Personal, Regnery, page 228:

     The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

   • 2009 April 10, Michael Hogan, “The Government Would Suck at Throwing a Tea Party”, in Vanity Fair‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 April 2016:

     Good thing there are loads of courageous anti-tax patriots (like Michelle Malkin!) willing to organize teabaggy protests designed to bring about a brave new world without bailouts, welfare, wars, or red tape […]

   • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 April 2021:

     Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

   • 2019 April 18, David Shariatmadari, “Ize on the prize: is Prince Charles the last guardian of British spelling?”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 August 2019:

     Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.

2. (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, “(please specify the page)”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC:

     The aim of patriots, therefore, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be allowed to exercise over the community.

Derived terms

• antipatriot
• Caitriot
• copatriot
• cosplaytriot
• Patriot Day
• patrioteer
• patriotess
• patriothood
• patriotic
• patriotical
• patriotism
• patriotist
• patriotization
• patriotize
• Patriot missile
• patriotship
• paytriot
• superpatriot

Translations

person who loves, supports and defends his country

• Afrikaans: patriot
• Albanian: atdhetar (sq) m, atdhetare (sq) f
• Amharic: አርበኛ (ʾärbäña)
• Arabic: وَطَنِيّ m (waṭaniyy), وَطَنِيَّة f (waṭaniyya)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հայրենասեր (hy) (hayrenaser)
• Azerbaijani: yurdsevər, vətənpərvər
• Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: abertzale (eu)
• Belarusian: патрыёт m (patryjót), патрыётка f (patryjótka)
• Bengali: দেশভক্ত (deśobhokto)
• Breton: brogarour (br) m
• Bulgarian: патрио́т (bg) m (patriót), патрио́тка f (patriótka), родолю́бец m (rodoljúbec), родолю́бка m (rodoljúbka)
• Burmese: မျိုးချစ် (my) (myui:hkyac), ဝံသာနုရက္ခိတ (my) (wamsanu.rakhki.ta.)
• Catalan: patriota m or f
• Cherokee: ᎤᎨᏳᎯ (ugeyuhi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛國者 / 爱国者 (zh) (àiguózhě)

• Crimean Tatar: vatanperver
• Czech: vlastenec m, vlastenka f, patriot m, patriotka f
• Danish: patriot c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: patriot (nl) m, vaderlander (nl) m
• Esperanto: patrioto
• Estonian: patrioot, rahvuslane, isamaalane
• Faroese: fosturlandsvinur m, føðilandsvinur m
• Finnish: patriootti (fi)
• French: patriote (fr) m or f
• Galician: patriota (gl) m or f
• Georgian: პატრიოტი (ṗaṭrioṭi), მამულიშვილი (mamulišvili)
• German: Patriot (de) m, Patriotin (de) f, Vaterlandsfreund m, Vaterlandsfreundin f, Vaterlandsliebhaber m, Vaterlandsliebhaberin f
• Greek: πατριώτης (el) m (patriótis), πατριώτισσα (el) f (patriótissa)
• Gujarati: દેશભક્ત m (deśbhakt)
• Hebrew: פַּטְרִיוֹט (he) m (patriyót)
• Hindi: देशभक्त (hi) m (deśbhakt), वतनपरस्त m (vatanparast), देशप्रेमी m (deśapremī)
• Hungarian: hazafi (hu)
• Icelandic: föðurlandsvinur (is) m, ættjarðarvinur (is) m
• Ido: patrioto (io)
• Indonesian: patriot (id), pencinta bangsa, pencinta tanah air
• Irish: tírghráthóir m
• Italian: patriota (it) m or f
• Japanese: 愛国者 (ja) (あいこくしゃ, aikokusha)
• Kazakh: патриот (patrıyot), отансүйгіш (otansüygiš) (neologism), отаншыл (otanšıl) (neologism)
• Khmer: អ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ (nĕək snaehaa ciət)
• Korean: 애국자(愛國者) (ko) (aegukja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نیشتیمان پەروەر (nîştîman perwer)

  Northern Kurdish: welatparêz (ku), welatperwer (ku), patriyot (ku)

• Kyrgyz: патриот (patriot), мекенчил (mekencil)
• Lao: ຜູ້ຮັກຊາດ (phū hak sāt)
• Latvian: patriots m, patriote f
• Lithuanian: patriotas (lt) m, patriotė f
• Macedonian: патрио́т m (patriót), патрио́тка f (patriótka), родољуб m (rodoljub), родољубец m (rodoljubec), родољупка f (rodoljupka)
• Malay: patriot
• Manx: graihder çheerey m, dooinney dooie m
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эх оронч (ex oronč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patriot m

  Nynorsk: patriot m

• Occitan: patriòta (oc) m
• Pashto: وطنپال m (watanpāl), وطندوست m (watandost), وطن پرست m (watan parast)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: میهَن‌پَرَسْت (fa) (mihan-parast), میهَن‌دوسْت (mihan-dust), وَطَن‌پَرَسْت (vatan-parast)

• Polish: patriota (pl) m, patriotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: patriota (pt) m or f
• Romanian: patriot (ro) m, patriotă (ro) f
• Russian: патрио́т (ru) m (patriót), патрио́тка (ru) f (patriótka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: патрѝот m, патрѝотица f, до̏мољӯб m, ро̏дољӯб m, домољубац m, домо̀љупка f, родољубац m, ро̏дољӯпка f

  Latin: patrìot (sh) m, patrìotica (sh) f, dȍmoljūb (sh) m, domoljubac m, domòljupka (sh) f, rȍdoljūb (sh) m, rodoljubac m, rȍdoljūpka (sh) f

• Slovak: vlastenec m, vlastenka f, patriot m, patriotka f
• Slovene: patriot m, patriotinja f, patriotka f, rodoljub m, rodoljubka f, domoljub (sl) m, domoljubka f
• Southern Altai: патриот (patriot), тӧрӧлчи (törölči)
• Spanish: patriota (es) m or f
• Swedish: patriot (sv) c
• Tajik: ватандӯст (vatandüst), ватанпарвар (vatanparvar), ватанпараст (tg) (vatanparast)
• Tatar: ватанчы (tt) (watançı)
• Thai: ผู้รักชาติ (pûu-rák-châat)
• Turkish: vatansever (tr), yurtsever (tr)
• Turkmen: watançy, patriot (tk)
• Ukrainian: патріо́т m (patriót), патріо́тка f (patriótka)
• Urdu: وَطَن دوسْت m (vatan dost), وَطَن پَرَسْت m (vatan parast)
• Uyghur: ۋەتەنپەرۋەر (wetenperwer)
• Uzbek: vatanparvar (uz), patriot
• Vietnamese: người yêu nước, nhà ái quốc
• Volapük: lomänälan (vo) m or f, hilomänälan m, jilomänälan f
• Walloon: patriyote (wa) m or f
• Welsh: gwladgarwr m
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: פּאַטריאָט m (patryot)
• Zazaki: waresinayoğ c, welatperwer c, welatsinayoğ c
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• matriot
• matriotic
• hatriot

References

• “patriot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatrɪjot]

Noun

patriot m anim

1. patriot

   Synonym: vlastenec

Declension

Declension of patriot (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	patriot	patrioti
genitive	patriota	patriotů
dative	patriotovi, patriotu	patriotům
accusative	patriota	patrioty
vocative	patriote	patrioti
locative	patriotovi, patriotu	patriotech
instrumental	patriotem	patrioty

Related terms

• See páter

Further reading

• “patriot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “patriot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “patriot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French patriote, from Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.triˈɔt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

patriot m (plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot
2. (historical, chiefly Netherlands) a republican opponent of the House of Orange-Nassau during the second half of the eighteenth century, in favour of centralisation and administrative rationalisation
3. (obsolete) compatriot

   Synonyms: landgenoot, medeburger

Derived terms

• patrizot

Descendants

• → Indonesian: patriot

Adjective

patriot (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) patriotic

Declension

Declension of patriot
uninflected	patriot
inflected	patriotte
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		patriot
indefinite	m./f. sing.	patriotte
	n. sing.	patriot
	plural	patriotte
definite		patriotte
partitive		patriots

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch patriot, from Middle French patriote, from Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pat̚ˈriɔt̚]
• Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

patriot (plural patriot-patriot)

1. patriot: a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country

   Synonyms: pencinta bangsa, pencinta tanah air

Related terms

• patriotik
• patriotis
• patriotisme

Further reading

• “patriot”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patrioter, definite plural patriotene)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patriotar, definite plural patriotane)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek πατριώτης (patriótis), French patriote, or German Patriot.

Noun

patriot m (plural patrioți)

1. patriot

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	patriot	patriotul	patrioți	patrioții
genitive-dative	patriot	patriotului	patrioți	patrioților
vocative	patriotule		patrioților

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Patriot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patrǐot/, /patriôt/
• Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

patrìot or patriȍt m anim (Cyrillic spelling патрѝот or патрио̏т)

1. patriot

   Synonyms: rȍdoljūb, dȍmoljūb

Declension

Declension of patriot

	singular	plural
nominative	patriot	patrioti
genitive	patriota	patriota
dative	patriotu	patriotima
accusative	patriota	patriote
vocative	patriote	patrioti
locative	patriotu	patriotima
instrumental	patriotom	patriotima

References

• “patriot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Noun

patriot c

1. a patriot

Declension

Declension of patriot

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	patriot	patriots
	definite	patrioten	patriotens
plural	indefinite	patrioter	patrioters
	definite	patrioterna	patrioternas

Derived terms

• lokalpatriot
• punschpatriot

Related terms

• patriotism

References

• “patriot”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “patriot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “patriot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)