patriotic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Feeling or showing great love and support for your country.

   On the national holiday, people wore patriotic colours and waved flags.

Simplified etymology

Patriotic is recorded from the mid-17th century and ultimately derives from Greek patris, “fatherland,” the same source family as patriot.

From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic.

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