sponsorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈspɒn.sə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈspɑn.sɚ/

名詞

sponsor (plural sponsors)

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

   Hyponyms: godparent, (obsolete) gossip

   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, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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 chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.

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

      • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 173:

        Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring.

2. A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.

   Synonyms: patron, underwriter

   And now a word from our sponsor.

派生した語

• → Czech: sponzor
• → Danish: sponsor
• → Dutch: sponsor
• → French: sponsor
• → German: Sponsor
• → Indonesian: sponsor
• → Polish: sponsor
• → Scottish Gaelic: sponsair

動詞

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.

派生語

• cosponsor
• sponsor-free
• sponsorial
• sponsorship

参考

• patron

Further reading

• “sponsor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sponsor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Sproson

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈspõː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈspɔn.sor]

名詞

spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension

1. a bondsman, surety

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• cōnspōnsor

派生した語

• → English: sponsor
  • → Czech: sponzor
  • → Danish: sponsor
  • → Dutch: sponsor
  • → French: sponsor
  • → German: Sponsor
  • → Indonesian: sponsor
  • → Polish: sponsor
  • → Scottish Gaelic: sponsair
• → Translingual: Sponsor

参照

• “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
• “sponsor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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