micropatria
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "In addition, and as a result of practices of intra-diplomacy, micropatrias collectively produce digital international communities in which member nations share concerns, consider possibilities and practice statehood."
- "By fulfilling the convention's requirements, micropatrias play with statehood and sovereignty. Their actions illustrate the exclusivity of sovereignty in terms of hegemonic political norms derived from the political power of dominant actors […] and highlight the complicated relationship of recognition and power."
- "A micronation (also known as micropatria [author's italics]) is a place that claims to be a sovereign state or autonomous political entity yet possesses a very limited (or non-existent) resident population and is not recognised by sovereign states (apart from other micronations)."
- "State-building for 'micropatria' such as Liberland often leads their creators to fashion statist iconography and mimic the legitimizing practices that recognized and unrecognized states undertake."
Etymology
Back-formation from micropatriology (“study of micronationalism”). Analysable as micro- + Latin patria (“country”), literally "microcountry".