patria

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 [ quotations ▼]
2. home

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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