different between patron vs ambassador

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

English

Alternative forms

• ambassadour (obsolete)
• embassador (archaic)
• embassadour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, ambassateur, from Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), from Medieval Latin ambasiator, from Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *ambahtij? (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos ("servant"; also the source of Latin ambactus (“vassal, servant, dependent”)), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i-h?e?- (“drive around”), from *h?m?b?i- (“around”) + *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?/, /æm?bæs.??d??/

Noun

ambassador (plural ambassadors)

1. A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
2. An official messenger and representative.
3. A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.

   As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.

Usage notes

• In English the preferred construction is (Nationality) ambassador to (Country) (the French ambassador to the United States) or ambassador of (Sending Country) to (Receiving Country) (the ambassador of France to the United States).

Derived terms

Related terms

• embassy

Translations

See also

• consul
• high commissioner