Patriotic means showing devoted love for your own country. A patriotic duty, patriotic songs, deeply patriotic.
It is the warm word beside nationalist, and the distinction people draw is that patriotism loves your own country while nationalism dislikes everybody else's. The Greek behind it is the word for fatherland.
1adjectivepatrioticShowing devoted love for your own country.
“Crowds waved flags and sang patriotic songs on Independence Day.”
patriotic is a quality.
Greek patriotikos comes from patris, a fatherland, from pater, a father.
Ancient Greek
πατριωτικός
Latin
patriōticus
French
patriotique
English, today
patriotic
From French patriotique, from Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός, from πατριώτης, equivalent to patriot + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA