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pro patria

[ proh pah-tri-ah; English proh pey-tree-uh, pa- ]

adverb

, Latin.
  1. for one's country.


pro patria

/ ˈprəʊ ˈpætrɪˌɑː /

(no translation)

  1. for one's country
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

France was saved because the French people never faltered in their belief that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

So patriotic and brave was he that if "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" ever was true of any hero it was of him.

Catilina longe a suis inter hostium cadavera repertus est: pulcherrima morte, si pro patria sic concidisset!

Convenit dimicare pro legibus, pro libertate, pro patria: comp.

It was a folio, pro patria size, in pica, with long primer notes.

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