mécène
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mécène (“Maecenas”), a Roman advisor (70 BCE – 8 BCE) and important patron for the Augustan poets, from Latin Maecenas.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mécène m or f by sense (plural mécènes)
- patron (of arts)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “mécène”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.