pro patria

Pro patria is defined as "for one’s country" in Latin.

(interjection)

An example of propatria is the line in the poet Horace’s Odes, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

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See pro patria in Webster's New World College Dictionary

for (one's) country

Origin: L

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