patronus

See also: patrónus

Latin

Etymology

From pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈtroː.nus/, [päˈt̪roːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈtro.nus/, [päˈt̪rɔːnus]

Noun

patrōnus m (genitive patrōnī); second declension

1. a protector, patron

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patrōnus	patrōnī
Genitive	patrōnī	patrōnōrum
Dative	patrōnō	patrōnīs
Accusative	patrōnum	patrōnōs
Ablative	patrōnō	patrōnīs
Vocative	patrōne	patrōnī

Descendants

• Catalan: patró
• Corsican: patronu
• Dutch: patroon
• English: patron, patroon, pattern
• French: patron
• Friulian: paron
• Galician: padrón, patrón
• Italian: padrone, patrono

• Portuguese: patrão, patrono, padrão
• Romanian: patron
• Sicilian: patruni
• Spanish: patrón, padrón, patrono
• Venetian: paron

References

• “patronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patronus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patronus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • counsel; advocate: patronus (causae) (De Or. 2. 69)
    
• “patronus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “patronus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin