different between defender vs patron

English

Alternative forms

• defendor, defendour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

defender (plural defenders)

1. someone who defends people or property
2. (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
3. a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
4. (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
5. (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action

Translations

Anagrams

• fendered, redefend

Interlingua

Verb

defender

1. to defend

Conjugation

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.

Verb

defender (Latin spelling)

1. to prohibit

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/

Verb

defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)

1. to defend (repel an attack)

   Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger

2. to defend (represent as a legal professional)
3. (rhetoric) to defend
4. to support (to back a cause, party etc.)

   Synonym: ser a favor de

5. (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
6. (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
7. (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
8. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
10. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
11. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]

Verb

defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)

1. to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))

   Synonym: proteger

2. to stand up for, to stick up for
3. to uphold

4. to prohibit

   Synonym: prohibir

5. to claim
6. (reflexive) to fight back
7. (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
8. (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
9. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
10. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by

Conjugation

Derived terms

• autodefenderse

Related terms

Further reading

• “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?.t??n/
• Rhymes: -e?tr?n
• Hyphenation: pa?tron

Noun

patron (plural patrons)

1. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
   1. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.

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.
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.)
   • 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 ...

Derived terms

Related terms

• pattern

Translations

See also

• sponsor

Verb

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.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     a good cause needs not to be patroned by passion

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

Anagrams

• Parton, parton, tarpon

Afrikaans

Noun

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

Synonyms

• patroon

Esperanto

Noun

patron

1. accusative singular of patro

French

Etymology

From Old French patron (“patron, protector”), from Latin patr?nus, from pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.t???/

Noun

patron m (plural patrons)

1. boss, employer

2. (sewing and knitting) pattern

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• patronat

Descendants

• ? German: Patrone
• ? Italian: patron
• ? Turkish: patron

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prônât

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patrón.

Noun

patrón

1. patron saint

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patron. Doublet of padrone.

Noun

patron m (invariable)

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

Anagrams

• pronta

Middle English

Noun

patron

1. Alternative form of patroun

Norman

Etymology

From Latin patr?nus, from pater (“father”).

Noun

patron m (plural patrons)

1. (Jersey, sewing and knitting) pattern

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• blekkpatron

References

• “patron” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin patronus

Noun

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

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

Etymology 2

From French patron

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• blekkpatron

References

• “patron” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin patr?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tr?n/

Noun

patron m pers (feminine patronka)

1. patron, sponsor
2. (Christianity) patron saint
3. guardian, protector

Declension

Further reading

• patron in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• patron in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?tro?n/
• Hyphenation: pat?ron

Noun

pàtr?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. patron
2. protector

Declension

Swedish

Noun

patron c

1. cartridge for a fire arm

Declension

References

• patron in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Anagrams

• norpat

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French patron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat?on/

Noun

patron (definite accusative patronu, plural patronlar)

1. boss

Declension