patronus

== English == === Noun === patronus (plural patronuses) Alternative letter-case form of Patronus. == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /paˈtronus/ Rhymes: -onus Syllabification: pa‧tro‧nus === Verb === patronus conditional of patroni == Latin == === Etymology === From an unattested *patrō, -ōnis + -us, from pater (“father, forefather”) + -ō ((colloquial) agent noun-forming suffix). Compare colōnus and avunculus. See also mātrōna. Leumann 1977 compares the formation of Ancient Greek υἱωνός (huiōnós, “grandson”) from υἱός (huiós, “son”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paˈtroː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paˈtrɔː.nus] === Noun === patrōnus m (genitive patrōnī); second declension a protector, patron ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== patrōcinor patrōna patrōnālis patrōnātus ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, 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[7], London: Macmillan and Co. “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