patron

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹən/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tron
• Rhymes: -eɪtrən

patron (plural patrons)

1. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
   • Shakespeare

     patron of my life and liberty

   • Spenser

     the patron of true holiness

   • Macaulay

     Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron's ire.

   1. A guardian; 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 regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.

   This car park is for patrons only.

4. (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
5. (Britain, 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 ...

• pattern

• sponsor

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.

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

• Parton, parton, tarpon

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

• patroon

patron

1. accusative singular of patro

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

• IPA^(key): /pa.tʁɔ̃/

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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

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

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

• prônât

Borrowed from Spanish patrón.

patrón

1. patron saint

Borrowed from French patron. Doublet of padrone.

patron m (invariable)

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

• pronta

patron

1. Alternative form of patroun

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

patron m (plural patrons)

1. (Jersey, sewing and knitting) pattern

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

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)

• blekkpatron

• “patron” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin patronus

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

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

From French patron

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

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

• blekkpatron

• “patron” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

pàtrōn m (Cyrillic spelling па̀тро̄н)

1. patron
2. protector

patron c

1. cartridge for a fire arm

Borrowed from French patron.

• IPA^(key): [patɾon]

patron (definite accusative patronu, plural patronlar)

1. boss