|
|
Definition of Patrial
1. Noun. A person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent).
Generic synonyms: Brit, Britisher, Briton
Definition of Patrial
1. a. Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.
Definition of Patrial
1. Adjective. (U.K.) Relating to the right of abode in the United Kingdom by having a British parent or grandparent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patrial
1. one who is entitled to stay in the UK because of a British parent [n -S]
Medical Definition of Patrial
1. Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; said of a noun. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Origin: L. Patria fatherland, country, fr. Pater father. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrial
Literary usage of Patrial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Lessons in Latin: Or an Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin by Ethan Allen Andrews, Whitman Peck (1874)
"Meus, tuus, and suus, are declined like bonus. Meus has in the vocative singular
masculine mi, and very rarely meus. patrial ..."
2. The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1859)
"The patrial Pronouns are those which have reference to one's country. They are
nostras, " of our country;" vestras, "of your country. ..."
3. Keble's Lectures on Poetry, 1832-1841 by John Keble (1912)
"... were become patrial, and to change their manner of life, and to be no better
than banished every man his city.'1 Aristophanes gives like evidence, ..."
Other Resources:
