patronus

patronus

1. conditional of patroni

From pater (“father”).

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

patrōnus m (genitive patrōnī); second declension

1. a protector, patron

Exspectō patrōnum.

I await my protector.

1. foster father

Second-declension noun.

• patrōcinor
• patrōna
• patrōnālis
• patrōnātus

• “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, 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