patron

See also: Patron and patrón

English

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Etymology

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

• 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 (nl) 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 Ottoman Turkish: صاحب (sâhib) 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, maarifpərvər 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 Ottoman Turkish: صاحب (sâhib) 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 Swedish: mecenat (sv) c 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)

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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: Cyrillic: (please verify) за́штитнӣк m Roman: (please verify) záštitnīk (sh) 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, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →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; “un patron”:

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

patron m (plural patrons, feminine patronne)

1. a boss, employer,

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

   My boss gave me some extra vacation days.

2. a head of a group of people, a department, a location, etc.
3. (historical, Ancient Rome) a member of the upper classes who offered aid and protection to those lesser than them
4. (obsolete) a protector
5. (dated) a powerful or influential person who supports another's career through their support and approval
6. (prostitution) a pimp or brothel-keeper

   Synonym: proxénète

7. a model or template
8. (sewing and knitting) a pattern
9. a stencil
10. (lutherie) a piece of wood from which an instrument is made

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• patronage
• patronal
• patronat
• patronier
• patroniser
• patronner
• patronnet
• patronnier

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

• Parnot, Parton, parton, portan, prônât, tarpon, trapon

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patrón.

Noun

patrón

1. patron saint