However, the word patria also implies a very strong moral and political pathos in Machiavelli's vocabulary, even if translating the word as' fatherland 'conjures up rather sinister connotations.
Jack: No, he immigrated to Switzerland from his fatherland, German.
From a cultural point of view, they are in some ways indistinguishable (Poland's best known poem starts, "Lithuania, o my fatherland").
The wheat's and corns grow But the fatherland is no more
The rabbi, Dov Kofman, an affable man who walks with a cane, says when the ceremony is over: "I love Israel, my son is now there serving in the army, but this is my fatherland."
"I consider Paraguay my second fatherland," Brazil's most notorious drug Lord, Fernandinho Beir-Mar, told Figueredo in a 2003 phone interview while he was on the run from police.
Everything belongs to the fatherland when the fatherland is in danger. --John Webster
He plucked the rose and placed it in a book, and carried it away into a distant part of the world, his fatherland.
the power that lies in the conjuncture of faith and fatherland(bConor Cruise O'Brien)
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