Английский Этимологический словарь - patriot

- 1596, "compatriot," from L.L. patriota, from Gk. patriotes "fellow countryman," from patria "fatherland," from pater (gen. patros) "father" + -otes suffix expressing state or condition. Meaning "loyal supporter of one's country" is slightly later in Eng. Johnson defined it as "one whose ruling passion is the love of his country," and in his fourth edition added, "It is sometimes used for a factious disturber of the government." Patriotic is first recorded 1653; patriotism formed in Eng. 1726. Oriana Fallaci marvels that Americans, so fond of patriotic, patriot, and patriotism, lack the root noun and are content to express the idea of patria by cumbersome compounds such as homeland.