different between protector vs patrol

English

Alternative forms

• protectour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English protectour, from Anglo-Norman protectour, protector, from Latin pr?tector, from pr?teg? (“shield, protect”). Displaced native Old English ?es?ildend.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: pr?-t?k't?r, IPA^(key): /p???t?kt?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???t?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: pro?tec?tor

Noun

protector (plural protectors, feminine protectress or protectrix)

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
   • 2005 January 3, Jon Huntsman Jr., quoted in “Highlights from Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s inauguration speech”, Deseret News, 4 January 2005:

     I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

2. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
5. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
6. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

Synonyms

• guard
• sentry

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pr?t?ctor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p?o.t?k?to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?u.t?k?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o.tek?to?/

Adjective

protector (feminine protectora, masculine plural protectors, feminine plural protectores)

1. protective (serving to protect)

Noun

protector m (plural protectors, feminine protectora)

1. protector (someone who protects or guards)

protector m (plural protectors)

1. protector (a device or mechanism which is designed to protect)

Related terms

• protecció
• protegir

Further reading

• “protector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “protector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “protector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “protector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin pr?tector, from pr?teg? (“to shield, protect”).

Pronunciation

Noun

protector m (plural protectoren, diminutive protectortje n)

1. A protector, guardian, regent etc.
2. (rare) Title of certain orphanage governors

Synonyms

• behoeder m
• beschermer m
• beschermheer m
• protecteur m (close French cognate)

Derived terms

• lord-protector m
• protectorschap n

Related terms

• protectie
• protectoraat n

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro??te?k.tor/, [p?o??t?e?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro?tek.tor/, [p???t??kt??r]

Noun

pr?t?ctor m (genitive pr?t?ct?ris); third declension

1. protector (all senses)
2. guardian; guard

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• protector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• protector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• protector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras)

1. Superseded spelling of protetor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Adjective

protector m (feminine singular protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras, comparable)

1. Superseded spelling of protetor. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pr?t?ctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ote??to?/, [p?o.t?e???t?o?]

Adjective

protector (feminine protectora or protectriz, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras or protectrices)

1. protective

Derived terms

• ángel protector
• cinta adhesiva protectora

Noun

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora or protectriz, feminine plural protectoras or protectrices)

1. protector (someone who protects or guards)

Noun

protector m (plural protectores)

1. protector (a device or mechanism which is designed to protect)

Related terms

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Alternative forms

• patrole (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjan?, *paþ?n? (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.

Noun

patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)

1. (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
2. (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
3. (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
4. (law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
5. Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
   • 1787-1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

     In France there is an army of patrols […] to secure her fiscal regulations.
6. (Scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.
   • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?^[1], page 24: “The formation of the boys into Patrols of from six to eight and training them as separate units each under its own responsible leader is the key to a good Troop.”

Derived terms

• patrol leader
• patrol officer
• senior patrol leader

Translations

Etymology 2

From French patrouiller, from Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”)

Verb

patrol (third-person singular simple present patrols, present participle patrolling, simple past and past participle patrolled)

1. (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
2. (transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman

Translations

Further reading

• patrol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• patrol in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• patrol at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Portal, portal, pratol

Polish

Etymology

From French patrouille, from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tr?l/

Noun

patrol m inan

1. (military) patrol (going of the rounds)
2. (military) patrol (movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts)
3. (military) patrol (guards who go the rounds for observation)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) patrolowa?, spatrolowa?
• (noun) patrolowiec
• (adjective) patrolowy

Further reading

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