Patronとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 patroun, patrone, from Old French patron, from Latin patrōnus, derived from pater (“father”). Doublet of padrone, Patronus, patroon, and pattern.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpeɪ.tɹən/
• 韻: -eɪtɹən
• ハイフネーション: pa‧tron

名詞

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 ...

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参考

• sponsor

動詞

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.

アナグラム

• Parton, parton, protan, tarpon