protégé

See also: protege, protegé, protége, protège, and Protegé

English

Alternative forms

• protege

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒt.ə.ʒeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊ.təˌʒeɪ/

Noun

protégé (plural protégés)

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

   Synonyms: apprentice, (more informal) mentee, pupil

   His status as a protégé of the great artist had many benefits, but was ultimately a burden.

   • 2006 August 28, Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber, “Manifold Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

     While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University.

Derived terms

• protégé effect

Related terms

• protégée (feminine form)

Translations

person who is guided and supported

• Arabic: ربيب‎ (rabīb), مَحْمِيّ‎ (maḥmiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門徒／门徒 (zh) (méntú)

• Dutch: protegé (nl) m
• Finnish: suojatti (fi)
• French: protégé (fr) m, protégée (fr) f
• German: Günstling (de) m, Protegé (de) m (both with a negative connotation), Mündel (de) n, Schützling (de) m
• Greek: προστατευόμενος (el) m (prostatevómenos), προστατευομένη f (prostatevoméni)
• Hungarian: védenc (hu), pártfogolt (hu)
• Japanese: 子飼い (こがい, kogai), プロテジェ (puroteje), 門徒 (ja) (ものと, monto), メンティー (mentī)
• Macedonian: штитеник m (štitenik)
• Maori: paruhi
• Polish: protegowany m, protegowana f
• Portuguese: pupilo (pt) m
• Russian: протеже́ (ru) m or f (protɛžé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штићеник m

  Roman: štićenik m

• Swedish: protegé (sv) c, skyddsling (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagapagtanod
• Turkish: çırak (tr)
• Ukrainian: протеже́ m or f (protežé)

See also

• ward

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/

• Audio

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Participle

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

1. past participle of protéger (protected)

Further reading

• “protégé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French protéger (“to protect”), compare Haitian Creole pwoteje.

Verb

protégé

1. to protect

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales