Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

expatriate 

 

1) to force to leave the country; banish, exile; 2) to withdraw from residence in or allegiance to one's native land

 

The poet Ezra Pound expatriated himself and went to Italy, where he became an admirer of the dictator Mussolini and broadcast Fascist propaganda to the United States. 

 

Related English word: expatriation 

 

Latin root word: patria, patriae, f. - country, fatherland 

 

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