noun · femininefirst declension
patria
patria f (genitive patriae)
Classical[ˈpa.tri.a]Ecclesiastical[ˈpaː.tri.a]
№ 342 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- femininefatherland, native land
Dulce et decōrum est prō patriā morī.
Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's fatherland.23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horatius, Carmina 3.2.13Ō quantum patriae sanguinis ille dēdit!
Oh how much blood he gave for his native land!8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.666 - femininehome
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
terra patrum nostrōrum, in quā nātī sumus.patria -ae f — in Mille Verba, Urbs et Aedificia
terra ubi quis nātus estpatria -ae (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 11 and Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 10
homeland
patria -ae — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 5, 8, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | patria | patriae |
| genitive | patriae | patriārum |
| dative | patriae | patriīs |
| accusative | patriam | patriās |
| ablative | patriā | patriīs |
| vocative | patria | patriae |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- patria carere
- to be in exile.
- in patriam redire
- to return from exile.
- mortem occumbere pro patria
- to die for one's country.
- vitam profundere pro patria
- to sacrifice oneself for one's country.
- urbs patria or simply patria
- native place.
- e patria exire iubere aliquem
- to banish a man from his native land.
- aliquem (in patriam) restituere
- to recall from exile.
- se morti offerre pro salute patriae
- to sacrifice oneself for one's country.
3 more phrases
- evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
- to drive a person out of house and home.
- patriae amantem (amantissimum) esse (Att. 9. 22)
- to be (very) patriotic.
- sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
- to shed one's blood for one's fatherland.
pā^trĭa, ae, v. 1. patrius, II. C. 1.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
patria ae, f
1 patrius; sc. terra, a fatherland, native land, own country, native place : carens patriā, in exile , T.: omnīs omnium caritates patria una complexa est: O patria, o divōm domus Ilium, V.: patriā Atheniensis.— A dwelling-place, home : habuit alteram loci patriam, alteram iuris: Italiam quaero patriam, V.: tantae aquae, the home , i. e. the source , O.: nimborum in patriam, V.: eadem est vini patria atque magistri, Iu.
Origins
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”).
Descendants
- Catalanpàtria
- Englishpatria
- Frenchpatrie
- Italianpatria
- Portuguesepátria
- Romanianpatrie
- Spanishpatria
- Galicianpatria
- Ligurianpatria