mécène
Appearance
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.