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Added 10 October 2026

fatherland

noun

In Latin: patria First recorded: 1620 Wiktionary

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The country of one's ancestors.
The country of one's birth, origin.

Origin

From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”). Does not continue Middle English fæderland, from Old English fæderland. First attested in the 1620s.

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