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.

   Synonyms: fellow citizen, countryperson

   Hyponyms: countryman, countrywoman

   • 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.

Derived terms

• compatriotic
• compatriotism
• compatriotship

Related terms

• patriot

Translations

somebody from one's own country

• Albanian: bashkatdhetar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوَاطِن (ar) (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)
• Bikol Central: kahimanwa
• 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), συμπατριώτισσα (el) f (sympatriótissa)
• 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
• Ottoman Turkish: وطنداش (vatandaş)
• 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; especially, being countrymen and 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, […]

Related terms

• patriot (adj)
• patriotic

Related terms

• compagination

References

• “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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	compatriot	compatriotul		compatrioți	compatrioții
genitive-dative	compatriot	compatriotului		compatrioți	compatrioților
vocative	compatriotule			compatrioților

Further reading

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