patronatus

== Latin == === Etymology === From patrōnus (“protector, patron”) + -ātus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pa.troːˈnaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pa.troˈnaː.tus] === Noun === patrōnātus m (genitive patrōnātūs); fourth declension (Late Latin) patronage Synonym: patrōcinium ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === "patronatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “patronatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press