protégé

See also Protegé

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French protégé, past participle of protéger (“to protect”).

Noun

protégé (plural protégés)

1. A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person or mentor.

   While Pablo was visiting his family in Mexico, he visited José Santos, a protégé of his who was now head cholo of the Illuminati at his own will. — Manifold Destiny by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, The New Yorker

Related terms

• protégée (feminine form)

Synonyms

• mentee (more informal)

Translations

person who is guided and supported

• Arabic: ربيب (ar), محمي (ar)
• Finnish: suojatti (fi)
• French: protégé (fr) m, protégée (fr) f
• German: Protegé (de) m, Schützling (de) m
• Greek: προστατευόμενος (el) (prostatevomenos) m , προστατευομένη (el) (prostatevomeni) f 
• Japanese: 子飼い (ja) (こがい, kogai), プロテジェ (ja) (puroteje)
• Portuguese: protegido (pt) m

• Russian: протеже́ (ru) (protɛžé) m and f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штићеник (sh) m

  Roman: štićenik (sh) m

• Swedish: protegé (sv) c
• Turkish: çırak (tr)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/, X-SAMPA: /pRO.te.Ze/

Verb

protégé m (feminine protégée, masculine plural protégés, feminine plural protégées)

1. Past participle of protéger (protected)