patrocinium

Latin patrōcinium

patrocinium (uncountable)

1. (historical) The distinctive relationship in Ancient Roman society between a patron and a client.

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

patrōcinium n (genitive patrōciniī or patrōcinī); second declension

1. protection, defence
2. patronage

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → Catalan: patrocini
• → English: patrocinium
• → Italian: patrocinio
• → Portuguese: patrocínio
• → Spanish: patrocinio

• “patrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patrocinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patrocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.