[lit-ideas] Patria
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Fatherland, Motherland -- Not been able to trace the discussion, but
something below. Cheers,
Speranza
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1711 -- motherland: a country as producer of anything; one’s native country
"fatherland" precedes "motherland".
"It’s not surprising that fatherland would be the term for one’s native
country in any language that has any historical association with the Romans;
the Latin word for “fatherland” is patria."
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From Short/Lewis, "Latin Dictionary", Oxford.
C. Subst.
1. pātrĭa , ae (old gen. patrial, Lucr. 1, 41), f (sc. terra)
----> i.e. the idea being that 'patria' is short for 'patria terra',
fatherly land -- but cfr. Verdi on 'patrio suol', etc.
a. One's fatherland, native land or country, native place.
Quotes
erilis patria, salve,” Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 2:
eram imperator in patriā meā
id. Ps. 4, 7, 75:
patria, quae communis est omnium nostrum parens.
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17:
omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est.
id. Off. 1, 17, 57:
o pater, o patria, o Priami domus,
Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 118 Vahl.); cf.:
o patria, o divum domus Ilium,
Poët. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 241; imitated by Verg. l. l.:
o Romule, Romule die, Qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt,
Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.):
patriā Atheniensis an Lacedaemonius
Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35:
Hispaniam sibi antiquam patriam esse,
Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 380.—
b. A dwelling-place, home:
habuit alteram loci patriam, alteram juris
Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 5:
Italiam quaero patriam
Verg. A. 1, 380; cf. id. ib. 11, 25:
exuere patriam
Tac. H. 5, 5; cf. id. Agr 32: patria major = μητρόπολις, the
mother-city of colonists, Curt. 4, 15, 5.—Hence, prov.:
patria est, ubicumque est bene,
Poët. (prob. Pacuv.) ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 37, 108:
quia propheta in suā patriā honorem non habet
Vulg. Johan. 4, 44; id. Marc. 6, 4; id. Luc. 4, 24.—Poet. of things;
Nilus, Qui patriam tantae tam bene celat aquae,
the home, i. e. the source, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 40:
nimborum in patriam
Verg. A. 1, 51:
divisae arboribus patriae
id. G. 2, 116; cf.:
una atque eadem est vini patria atque magistri
Juv. 11, 161. —*
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