patrocinium
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin patrōcinium.
Noun
[edit]patrocinium (uncountable)
- (historical) The distinctive relationship in Ancient Roman society between a patron and a client.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From patrōcinor + -ium.
Noun
[edit]patrōcinium n (genitive patrōciniī or patrōcinī); second declension
- protection, defence
- patronage
- Synonym: patrōnātus
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | patrōcinium | patrōcinia |
genitive | patrōciniī patrōcinī1 |
patrōciniōrum |
dative | patrōciniō | patrōciniīs |
accusative | patrōcinium | patrōcinia |
ablative | patrōciniō | patrōciniīs |
vocative | patrōcinium | patrōcinia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: patrocini
- → German: Patrozinium
- → English: patrocinium
- → Italian: patrocinio
- → Portuguese: patrocínio
- → Sicilian: patrucìniu
- → Spanish: patrocinio
References
[edit]- “patrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patrocinium 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)
- patrocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.