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sponsor
English
Etymology
From Latin sponsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”), from sponsus, past participle of sponde?
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sp?n.s?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sp?n.s??/
Noun
sponsor (plural sponsors, feminine sponsoress)
- A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
- Hyponyms: godparent, (obsolete) gossip
- 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.
- A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
- One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
- Synonyms: patron, underwriter
Translations
Verb
sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)
- (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
Derived terms
- sponsorial
- sponsorship
Translations
Further reading
- sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sponsor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Sproson
Danish
Etymology
From English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)
- sponsor
Declension
Further reading
- “sponsor” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
Noun
sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)
- sponsor
Synonyms
- financierder
Verb
sponsor
- first-person singular present indicative of sponsoren
- imperative of sponsoren
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??.s??/
Noun
sponsor m (plural sponsors)
- sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety
- Pour mieux trouver le commettant, ou le « sponsor » qui financera les travaux, le chercheur définit un programme, chiffré en temps et en argent. (L'Expansion, févr. 1972, p. 30, col. 2)
- (Middle East business) sponsor cashing on foreign investors
- Vous voulez faire des affaires au Koweit ? Il faut d'abord trouver un sponsor, koweitien, savoir qu'il vous prendra un honnête pourcentage (13 à 15 %) mais refusera d'endosser le moindre risque et disparaîtra au premier accrochage. (Le Nouvel Observateur, 4 févr. 1974, p. 29, col. 2)
Synonyms
- (patron): commanditaire, mécène, parrain
- (Middle East business): caution, garant, répondant
Derived terms
- sponsorisation
- sponsoriser
References
- “sponsor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “sponsor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (invariable)
- sponsor (commercial)
Latin
Etymology
From sponde? (“to promise”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spon.sor/, [?s?põ?s??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spon.sor/, [?sp?ns?r]
Noun
sp?nsor m (genitive sp?ns?ris); third declension
- a bondsman, surety
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- 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?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- sponsor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)
- a sponsor
Related terms
- sponse
References
- “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)
- a sponsor
Related terms
- sponse
References
- “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From English sponsor, from Latin sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?n.s?r/
Noun
sponsor m pers (feminine sponsorka)
- sponsor, patron, backer
Declension
Further reading
- sponsor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- sponsor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?ponso?/, [es?põn.so?]
Noun
sponsor m (plural sponsores)
- sponsor
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
sponsor c
- a sponsor
Declension
Related terms
- sponsra
- sponsring
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espouse
English
Etymology
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin sp?ns?re, present active infinitive of sp?ns? (frequentative of sponde?), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??spa?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z, -a?s
Verb
espouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)
- (transitive) To become/get married to.
- (transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
- 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
- Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
- 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
Related terms
- espousal
- sponsor
- spouse
Translations
Anagrams
- poseuse
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