for (one's) country
Origin of pro patria
Classical Latinpro patria
pro pa·tria
interjection
Pro patria is defined as "for one’s country" in Latin.
An example of propatria is the line in the poet Horace’s Odes, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
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