patria

See also: pàtria and pátria

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin patria.

Noun

patria f (plural patries)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

Related terms

• patrimonial
• patrimoniu
• patriota
• patrioteru
• patriotismu
• patriu
• patrióticu

Galician

Etymology

From Latin patria.

Noun

patria f (plural patrias)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

Related terms

• patrimonio
• patrio
• patriota
• patriótico
• patriotismo

Further reading

• “patria”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.trja/, /ˈpa.tri.a/
• Rhymes: -atrja, -atria
• Hyphenation: pà‧tria, pà‧tri‧a

Etymology 1

From Latin patria (“fatherland”).

Noun

patria f (plural patrie)

1. one's native land or country
2. homeland, fatherland

Synonyms

• paese

Derived terms

• madrepatria

Etymology 2

Adjective

patria

1. feminine singular of patrio

Anagrams

• parati, parità, patirà, pirata, rapati, rapita, tarpai

Ladino

Etymology 1

Derived from Latin patria (“fatherland”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

patria f (Hebrew spelling פאטרייה)

1. homeland (motherland; fatherland)
   • 2013, Myriam Moscona, Jacobo Sefamí with Martín Fierro, José Hernández, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino‎^[1], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 222:

     Ma, kuando se akodro ke el valiante Amadis no kedo satisfecho de yamarse solo “Amadis” i adjusto el nombre de su reynado i patria para darle fama, i se yamo “Amadis de Gaula”, I el kijo azer lo mizmo, komo un buen kavayero, adjustar al suyo el nombre de la suya, i yamarse “don Kishot de la Mancha”, ke asegun el, deklarava klaramente su linaje i patria, i la onorava en tomandola por alkunya.

     Nevertheless, when [someone] remembered that the valiant Amadis was left unsatisfied in merely being called ‘Amadis’, [he] added the name of his kingdom and homeland to make himself famous, and he called himself ‘Amadis of Gaula’, and he kept repeating himself, like a good knight, adding to his name the name of his homeland, and calling himself ‘don Koshot de la Mancha’, as according to him, it was clearly declaring his lineage and homeland, and he was esteeming it in treating it like family.

Alternative forms

• pátria

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

patria

1. feminine singular of patrio

Latin

Etymology

Substantive noun from an ellipsis of the collocative term terra patria ("paternal/hereditary land"), itself from terra (“land, country”) and patrius (“fatherly, paternal, hereditary, ancestral”). Compare origin of Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ, “basilica”), from Byzantine Greek term βασιλική στοά (basilikḗ stoá, “royal building”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) and πατρίς (patrís, “place of one's ancestors”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tri.a/, [ˈpät̪riä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tri.a/, [ˈpäːt̪riä]

Noun

patria f (genitive patriae); first declension

1. country; fatherland (literally), native land
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.2.13:

     Dulce et decōrum est prō patriā morī.

     Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's fatherland.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.666:

     Ō quantum patriae sanguinis ille dēdit!

     Oh how much blood he gave for his native land!

2. home

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	patria	patriae
genitive	patriae	patriārum
dative	patriae	patriīs
accusative	patriam	patriās
ablative	patriā	patriīs
vocative	patria	patriae

Synonyms

• (home): domus

Descendants

• Catalan: pàtria
• English: patria
• French: patrie
• Galician: patria
• Italian: patria
• Ligurian: patria
• Portuguese: pátria
• Romanian: patrie
• Spanish: patria

Adjective

patria

1. inflection of patrius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

patriā

1. ablative feminine singular of patrius

References

• “patria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "patria", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • to be (very) patriotic: patriae amantem (amantissimum) esse (Att. 9. 22)
    
  • to recall from exile: aliquem (in patriam) restituere
    
  • to return from exile: in patriam redire
    
  • (ambiguous) native place: urbs patria or simply patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to die for one's country: mortem occumbere pro patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to sacrifice oneself for one's country: vitam profundere pro patria
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish a man from his native land: e patria exire iubere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in exile: patria carere
    
• patria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Ligurian

Noun

patria f (please provide plural)

1. homeland

Portuguese

Noun

patria f (plural patrias)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pátria.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatri̯a]

Verb

patria

1. third-person plural present of patriť

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpatɾja/ [ˈpa.t̪ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -atɾja
• Syllabification: pa‧tria

Etymology 1

From Latin patria (“fatherland”).

Noun

patria f (plural patrias)

1. homeland, fatherland, motherland

   Synonym: terruño

Derived terms

• antipatria
• patria chica
• patria potestad

Related terms

• patrimonio
• patrio
• patriota
• patriótico
• patriotismo

Etymology 2

Adjective

patria

1. feminine singular of patrio

Further reading

• “patria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10