Patriot - Wiktionary

Home » How Do You Spell Patriots » Patriot - Wiktionary

Maybe your like

See also: Patriot

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

[edit]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹi.ət/
    • Audio (Texas):(file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpæɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpæt.ɹi.ət/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈpæɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpɛt.ɹi.ət/

Noun

[edit]

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. 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.
    • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian‎[1]: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.
  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

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

Translations

[edit] person who loves, supports and defends his country
  • Afrikaans: patriot
  • Albanian: atdhetar (sq) m, atdhetare (sq) f
  • Amharic: please add this translation if you can
  • Arabic: وَطَنِيّ m (waṭaniyy), وَطَنِيَّة f (waṭaniyya)
  • Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
  • Armenian: հայրենասեր (hy) (hayrenaser)
  • Azerbaijani: yurdsevər
  • 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 (patri'ot)
  • 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)
  • Irish: tírghráthóir m
  • Italian: patriota (it) m or f
  • Japanese: 愛国者 (ja) (あいこくしゃ, aikokusha)
  • Kazakh: патриот (patriot), отансүйгіш (otansüigış) (neologism), отаншыл (otanşyl) (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: میهن‌پرست (mihan-parast), میهن‌دوست (mihan-dust), وطن‌پرست (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 Roman: 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
  • 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: وَطَن‌پَرَست 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

[edit]
  • matriot
  • matriotic
  • hatriot

References

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

Czech

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): [ˈpatrɪjot]

Noun

[edit]

patriot m anim

  1. patriot Synonym: vlastenec

Declension

[edit] 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
[edit]
  • See páter

Further reading

[edit]
  • “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), 2008–2025

Dutch

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˌpaː.triˈɔt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ot
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

[edit]

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

[edit]
  • patrizot

Descendants

[edit]
  • → Indonesian: patriot

Adjective

[edit]

patriot (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) patriotic

Declension

[edit]
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

[edit]
Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:patriotWikipedia id

Etymology

[edit]

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

[edit]

patriot (plural patriot-patriot)

  1. patriot: a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country
[edit]
  • patriotik
  • patriotis
  • patriotisme

Further reading

[edit]
  • “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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

[edit]

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

  1. a patriot

Derived terms

[edit]
  • patriotisk
  • patriotisme

References

[edit]
  • “patriot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs).

Noun

[edit]

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

  1. a patriot

Derived terms

[edit]
  • patriotisk
  • patriotisme

References

[edit]
  • “patriot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

Noun

[edit]

patriot m (plural patrioți)

  1. patriot

Declension

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

Serbo-Croatian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from German Patriot.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /patrǐot/, /patriôt/
  • Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

[edit]

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

  1. patriot Synonyms: rȍdoljūb, dȍmoljūb

Declension

[edit] 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

[edit]
  • “patriot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

patriot c

  1. a patriot

Declension

[edit] Declension of patriot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite patriot patriots
definite patrioten patriotens
plural indefinite patrioter patrioters
definite patrioterna patrioternas

Derived terms

[edit]
  • lokalpatriot
  • punschpatriot
[edit]
  • patriotism

References

[edit]
  • patriot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tag » How Do You Spell Patriots