Latin

Noun

patrōnus m ‎(genitive patrōnī); second declension

1. a protector, patron

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “patronus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • counsel; advocate: patronus (causae) (De Or. 2. 69)
    
• 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