micropatrology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The study of microstates; sovereign countries with very small populations, land areas, or both.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Blaustein is associated with the Micropatrology Society, a group that exchanges information on micronations whose claims to existence have varying degrees of credibility. The society assesses these claims in five categories: B (for bogus), E (for extinct), F (for fiction), T (for traditional) and O (for other)."
- "Again, welcome new LOSS [League of Secessionist States] members and good luck furthering the cause of micronationalism and the science of micropatrology!"
- "As micropatrology ... is a relatively new field, and largely neglected in terms of serious scholarly research, the literature which has been devoted to de facto states and their claims to legitimacy and sovereignty may be instructive in regard to an evaluation of modern micronations."
- "I'm interested in micropatrology, so it was kind of interesting to see -- uh, this."
- "These people make a hobby keeping track of small countries, both established ones (like Monaco and Liechtenstein) and new countries. "Micropatrology" is their word for "the study of small countries.""
- "At least in Andorra and Malta, the subject of micropatrology is taken quite seriously."
Etymology
From micro- (“very small”) + Latin patria (“country”) + -ology (“branch of learning; a study of a particular subject”), coined by the International Micropatrological Society in 1973. Perhaps a classical compound via translating micronation into Latin as micropatria (literally “microcountry”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin