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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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɪ.tɹi.ət/, /ˈpæt.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. 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:

     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

• patriotess
• patriotic
• patriotism
• patriotization
• Patriot missile
• paytriot

Translations

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: please add this translation if you can 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

• 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), 2008–2025

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

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

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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

Related terms

• patriotik
• patriotis
• patriotisme

Further reading

• “patriot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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) or French patriote or German Patriot.

Noun

patriot m (plural patrioți)

1. patriot

Declension

Declension of patriot

	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), 2006–2025

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 (SO)
• patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• patriot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)