pater-, patri-, patro-, patr-, -patria

A child that has more affection for the father than the mother: As a patrophile, little Jenny really adored her father and always ran to him when she wanted something or when she had hurt herself.

1. The relationship of a paternal uncle or a father's brother: "Jane loved her patruity because he did so many things to help her while she was growing up and even when she needed financial help while attending a university."
2. Etymology: from Latin patruus, "father's brother"; from pater, partris, "father".

1. A love of one’s father: Little Tommy was a philopater who simply adored his father!
2. A fondness for one’s country:: As a philopater, Jack thought the land where he lived was terrific, so he decided to find a job where he could be an important part in its development.

Conveying a tendency to remain in the native locality; referring to species or grouips that show little capacity to spread out or to disperse: Some plants are philopatric in that their reproductive elements stay close to their area of origin and do not dispurse into far places.

An irresistible urge to return home; homesickness: When away on a foreign exchange program in Germany, one of the students was afflicted with philopatridomania and flew back to his family within a month of his stay.

It is not uncommon for young students to have a case of philopatridomania, if it is the very fist time to be away from home and family.

A case of philopatridomania can also be a compulsion to return to one’s native land, as seen in prisoners of war.

A tendency to remain in a native locality: Philopatry is seen in species or groups that show little capacity to spread out or to scatter abroad.

Philopatry can also be described as the inclination of an organism to stay in, or return to, its home area.

For Christ and country.

Motto of Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA.

For God and country.

Motto of the University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio, USA; as well as, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.

For church and country.

Motto of Trinity College, Harford, Connecticut, USA.

To restore (a person) to his own country.

Return or restoration to one’s own country.

As with our fathers, may God be with us.

Motto of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

In biology, occurring in the same geographical region, or in overlapping regions:

A reference to species that develop members with genetic differences, which prevents successful reproduction with each other, producing a population that is separate from the original species: "When a pair of sympatric species live in the same habitat, they tend to exhibit greater differences in morphology (form) and behavior than the same two species do when living in different places."

"Sympatric species partition available resources which reduce competition between them."

"On islands where sympatric birds exist, the two species can evolve beaks of different sizes, where one is adapted to larger seeds and the other one to smaller seeds."

"When two sympatric species occupy the same part of a tree, they either consume different-sized insects as food or exist in the thermal microhabitat where one group might be found only in the shade and the other one would be in the sun almost all of the time during the day."