Expatriate
/ˌɛk.spəˈtriː.eɪt/noun
A person who lives outside their native country, or the act of sending someone away from their homeland.
Did you know?Expatriate comes from Latin patria, “fatherland,” the same deep root behind patriot, and its oldest force is political banishment: to be made foreign by leaving home.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
ex patria
“out of the native land; away from one’s homeland”
Late Latin
Latin
expatriare
“to banish or remove from one’s country”
17th Century
English
expatriate
“to banish; to drive from one’s native land”
19th Century
English
expatriate
“a person living outside their native country”
Modern English
English
expatriate
“a person residing abroad, especially by choice”
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