Expatriate (Verb)

Definition 1: To leave one's native land and live elsewhere; to renounce allegiance to one's native land.

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Usage 1: Historically, writers have expatriated: Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley left England for Italy, T. S. Eliot left the US for England, Samuel Beckett left Ireland for France, Gertrude Stein left the US for France, James Joyce left Ireland for practically anywhere else, and Ernest Hemingway did likewise from the US. The list goes on; many studies have been done of the expatriate [eks-'pey-tree-yêt] writers' habits of expatriation [eks-pey-tree-'ey-shên].

Suggested usage: Usually, "to expatriate" is taken to mean an ideological difference with one's homeland, but many people expatriate for economic reasons. Russians expatriated to Europe for economic reasons after the Gorbachev revolution. Many expatriate Americans lived in Paris in the '20's because Paris was more fun.

Etymology: Medieval Latin expatriare "to leave one's country" from Latin ex- "from, out of" + Latin patria "native land." "Patria" is derived from pater "father". The same Proto-Indo-European root *pêter emerged in English as "father," French père, Spanish "padre," and Sanskrit as "pitR," and Persian (Farsi) "pedar." (For more on Proto-Indo-European read "How is a Hippopotamus like a Feather" in the yourDictionary library.)

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