patron

See also: Patron and patrón

English

Etymology

From Middle English patroun, patrone, from Old French patron, from Latin patrōnus, derived from pater (“father”). Doublet of padrone, Patronus, and pattern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹən/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɹən
• Hyphenation: pa‧tron

• Audio (US)

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Noun

patron (plural patrons)

1. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     patron of my life and liberty

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the patron of true holiness

   • 1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Virginia”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 154:

     Let him who works the client wrong beware the patron’s ire!

   1. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.

      St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.

2. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
3. A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.

   This car park is for patrons only.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:

     In our trial of the AOT, a transect was used to collect data about the languages being spoken by patrons of the NIE cafeteria during lunchtimes.

4. (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
5. (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
6. (nautical) A padrone.
7. (obsolete or historical) A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)
   • 1879, Annie Allnutt Brassey, A Voyage in the "Sunbeam", page 170:

     Half-a-dozen little boys carried it to the inn, where I had to explain to the patron, in my best Spanish, that we wanted a carriage to go to the baths, seven leagues off.

   • 1992, Eric O. Ayisi, St. Eustatius, Treasure Island of the Caribbean:

     [...] would obtain permission from the West India Company to settle in certain areas in the New World and cultivate the land. Sometimes absentee patrons would give the colony to a group of interested persons and the patrons would finance ...

Derived terms

Derived terms

• copatron
• patronage
• patroness
• patronize, patronise
• patron saint

Related terms

• pattern

Translations

one who protects or supports

• Arabic: راعي (ممول); حامي; وصي; سيد (مولى); و m (rai'i (momawil); hami; wassi; sayyid (mawla)), حريف; زبون m (harif, zaboun)
• Azerbaijani: himayəçi, himayədar, havadar (az), hami
• Bulgarian: защитник (bg) m (zaštitnik)
• Czech: příznivec (cs) m
• Dutch: beschermheilige (nl), schutspatroon
• Esperanto: patrono (eo)
• Finnish: tukija (fi), suojelija (fi); (saint) suojeluspyhimys
• Galician: patrón (gl) m
• German: Schirmherr (de) m, Patron (de) m
• Greek: προστάτης (el) m (prostátis)

  Ancient: προστάτης m (prostátēs), πρόδικος m (pródikos)

• Hungarian: pártfogó (hu), patrónus (hu), védnök (hu)
• Icelandic: velunnari m, stuðningsmaður m, verndari m, bakhjarl m
• Italian: patrono (it) m
• Japanese: 守護者 (shugosha)
• Macedonian: ага m (aga)
• Maori: kairangi
• Middle English: patroun
• Persian: حامی (fa) (hâmi)
• Russian: засту́пник (ru) m (zastúpnik), засту́пница (ru) f (zastúpnica)
• Spanish: patrón (es) m
• Tocharian B: tanāpate
• Vilamovian: patrön m

wealthy individual who supports an artist etc.

• Azerbaijani: hami, mesenat
• Bulgarian: меценат (bg) m (mecenat), покровител (bg) m (pokrovitel)
• Czech: mecenáš m
• Danish: mæcen (da) c
• Dutch: mecenas (nl) m
• Finnish: tukija (fi), mesenaatti (fi)
• French: mécène (fr) m
• Galician: mecenas (gl) m or f
• German: Mäzen (de) m
• Greek: πάτρονας (el) m (pátronas)
• Hungarian: patrónus (hu), mecénás (hu)
• Italian: mecenate (it) m
• Japanese: 恩人 (ja) (おんじん, onjin), パトロン (patoron)
• Macedonian: ага (aga)
• Manx: ard-charrey m
• Portuguese: mecenas (pt) m or f
• Russian: покрови́тель (ru) m (pokrovítelʹ), покрови́тельница (ru) f (pokrovítelʹnica)
• Spanish: mecenas (es) m or f, patrocinador m, auspiciador m
• Turkish: mesen (tr)

customer — see customer

Roman law: protector of a dependent

• Bulgarian: патрон (bg) m (patron)
• Danish: patron (da) c
• Finnish: suojelija (fi)

one who has gift and disposition of a benefice

nautical: padrone — see padrone

property owner, landlord, master

• Finnish: isäntä (fi)
• Greek: ιδιοκτήτης (el) m (idioktítis)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} vlastník (cs) m
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} bouwheer (nl) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Inhaber (de) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Stammkunde (de) m
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} fastagestur (is) m
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} éarlamh m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} proprietario (it)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 老顧客／老顾客 (zh) (lǎogùkè)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} patron (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} záštitnīk (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} за́штитнӣк m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} stamkund (sv) c

See also

• sponsor

Verb

patron (third-person singular simple present patrons, present participle patroning, simple past and past participle patroned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
   • 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:

     a good cause needs not to be patroned by passion

2. (transitive, obsolete) To treat as a patron.

Anagrams

• Parton, parton, protan, tarpon

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

patron (plural patrons)

1. (uncommon) patron; wealthy person who supports an artist, craftsman, a scholar, etc.
2. (uncommon, Roman Catholicism) patron saint
3. (uncommon, Roman antiquity) patron

Synonyms

• patroon

Esperanto

Noun

patron

1. accusative singular of patro

French

Etymology

From Old French patron (“patron, protector”), from Latin patrōnus, from pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.tʁɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

patron m (plural patrons)

1. boss, employer

   Mon patron m’a accordé quelques jours de vacances supplémentaires.

   My boss gave me some extra vacation days.

2. (sewing and knitting) pattern

Usage notes

• This is a false friend, the only English sense of this word shared in French is saint patron (“patron saint”).

Related terms

• patronat

Descendants

• → German: Patrone
• → Italian: patron
• → Romanian: patron
• → Russian: патро́н (patrón)
• → Turkish: patron

Further reading

• “patron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• prônât

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patrón.

Noun

patrón

1. patron saint

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patron. Doublet of padrone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈtrɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: pa‧tròn

Noun

patron m (invariable)

1. patron (of a sports event etc.)
2. pattern (paper, for knitting)

Anagrams

• pronta

Middle English

Noun

patron

1. Alternative form of patroun

Norman

Etymology

From Latin patrōnus, from pater (“father”).

Noun

patron m (plural patrons)

1. (Jersey, sewing and knitting) pattern

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin patronus (sense 1), and French patron (senses 2 & 3).

Noun

patron m (definite singular patronen, indefinite plural patroner, definite plural patronene)

1. a patron (person who gives financial or other support)
2. a cartridge (ammunition)
3. a cartridge (e.g. ink cartridge)

Derived terms

• blekkpatron

References

• “patron” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin patronus.

Noun

patron m (definite singular patronen, indefinite plural patronar, definite plural patronane)

1. a patron (person who gives financial or other support)

Etymology 2

From French patron.

Noun

patron f (definite singular patrona, indefinite plural patroner, definite plural patronene)

1. a cartridge (ammunition)
2. a cartridge (e.g. ink cartridge)

Derived terms

• blekkpatron

References

• “patron” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin patrōnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpat.rɔn/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -atrɔn
• Syllabification: pat‧ron

Noun

patron m pers (female equivalent patronka)

1. patron, sponsor
2. (Christianity) patron saint
3. guardian, protector

Declension

Declension of patron

	singular	plural
nominative	patron	patronowie/patroni
genitive	patrona	patronów
dative	patronowi	patronom
accusative	patrona	patronów
instrumental	patronem	patronami
locative	patronie	patronach
vocative	patronie	patronowie/patroni

Further reading

• patron in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• patron in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patron, from Latin patronus.

Noun

patron m (plural patroni)

1. employer, business owner

Declension

Declension of patron

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) patron	patronul	(niște) patroni	patronii
genitive/dative	(unui) patron	patronului	(unor) patroni	patronilor
vocative	patronule		patronilor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎtroːn/
• Hyphenation: pat‧ron

Noun

pàtrōn m (Cyrillic spelling па̀тро̄н)

1. patron
2. protector

Declension

Declension of patron

	singular	plural
nominative	pàtrōn	patroni
genitive	patróna	patrona
dative	patronu	patronima
accusative	patron	patrone
vocative	patrone	patroni
locative	patronu	patronima
instrumental	patronom	patronima

Swedish

Noun

patron c

1. a cartridge (for a fire arm, or holding for example ink)

Declension

Declension of patron
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	patron	patronen	patroner	patronerna
Genitive	patrons	patronens	patroners	patronernas

Derived terms

• bläckpatron (“ink cartridge”)

Noun

patron c

1. (somewhat dated) a squire or millowner (owner of an industrial facility, usually dealing with iron, wood, or glass)

Declension

Declension of patron
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	patron	patronen, patron	patroner	patronerna
Genitive	patron	patronens, patrons	patroners	patronernas

Derived terms

• brukspatron

References

• patron in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• patron in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• patron in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• norpat

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French patron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat.ɾɔn/

Noun

patron (definite accusative patronu, plural patronlar)

1. boss

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	patron
Definite accusative	patronu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patron	patronlar
Definite accusative	patronu	patronları
Dative	patrona	patronlara
Locative	patronda	patronlarda
Ablative	patrondan	patronlardan
Genitive	patronun	patronların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular patronum patronlarım 2nd singular patronun patronların 3rd singular patronu patronları 1st plural patronumuz patronlarımız 2nd plural patronunuz patronlarınız 3rd plural patronları patronları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular patronumu patronlarımı 2nd singular patronunu patronlarını 3rd singular patronunu patronlarını 1st plural patronumuzu patronlarımızı 2nd plural patronunuzu patronlarınızı 3rd plural patronlarını patronlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular patronuma patronlarıma 2nd singular patronuna patronlarına 3rd singular patronuna patronlarına 1st plural patronumuza patronlarımıza 2nd plural patronunuza patronlarınıza 3rd plural patronlarına patronlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular patronumda patronlarımda 2nd singular patronunda patronlarında 3rd singular patronunda patronlarında 1st plural patronumuzda patronlarımızda 2nd plural patronunuzda patronlarınızda 3rd plural patronlarında patronlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular patronumdan patronlarımdan 2nd singular patronundan patronlarından 3rd singular patronundan patronlarından 1st plural patronumuzdan patronlarımızdan 2nd plural patronunuzdan patronlarınızdan 3rd plural patronlarından patronlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular patronumun patronlarımın 2nd singular patronunun patronlarının 3rd singular patronunun patronlarının 1st plural patronumuzun patronlarımızın 2nd plural patronunuzun patronlarınızın 3rd plural patronlarının patronlarının
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular patronum patronlarım 2nd singular patronsun patronlarsın 3rd singular patron patrondur patronlar patronlardır 1st plural patronuz patronlarız 2nd plural patronsunuz patronlarsınız 3rd plural patronlar patronlardır