German

Noun

Sponsor m ‎(genitive Sponsors, plural Sponsoren)

1. sponsor

Related terms

• sponsern
• Sponsorin

English

Noun

sponsor ‎(plural sponsors)

1. A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.

   He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.‎

   They were my sponsors for immigration.‎

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

   1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.

      My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.‎

2. One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.

   And now a word from our sponsor.‎

Synonyms

• (one that pays the cost of event, media program): patron, underwriter

Translations

Verb

sponsor ‎(third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)

1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Derived terms

• sponsorial
• sponsorship

Translations

External links

• sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sponsor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m, f ‎(plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)

1. sponsor

Synonyms

• financierder

Verb

sponsor

1. first-person singular present indicative of sponsoren
2. imperative of sponsoren

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m ‎(plural sponsors)

1. sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety

   Pour mieux trouver le commettant, ou le « sponsor » qui financera les travaux, le chercheur définit un programme, chiffré en temps et en argent. (L'Expansion, févr. 1972, p. 30, col. 2)

2. (Middle East business) sponsor cashing on foreign investors

   Vous voulez faire des affaires au Koweit ? Il faut d'abord trouver un sponsor, koweitien, savoir qu'il vous prendra un honnête pourcentage (13 à 15 %) mais refusera d'endosser le moindre risque et disparaîtra au premier accrochage. (Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 févr. 1974, p. 29, col. 2)

Synonyms

• (patron): commanditaire, mécène, parrain
• (Middle East business): caution, garant, répondant

Derived terms

• sponsorisation
• sponsoriser

References

• “sponsor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m ‎(invariable)

1. sponsor (commercial)

Latin

Etymology

From sponsus, past participle of spondeō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈspõː.sɔr]

Noun

spōnsor m ‎(genitive spōnsōris); third declension

1. a bondsman, surety

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sponsor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo
    
• sponsor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m ‎(definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)

1. a sponsor

Related terms

• sponse

References

• “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m ‎(definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)

1. a sponsor

Related terms

• sponse

References

• “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor m ‎(plural sponsores)

1. sponsor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor c

1. a sponsor

Declension

Related terms

• sponsra
• sponsring