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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)

1. 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.

   1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. sponsor

Synonyms

• financierder

Verb

sponsor

1. first-person singular present indicative of sponsoren
2. imperative of sponsoren

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??.s??/

Noun

sponsor m (plural sponsors)

1. 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)

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)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. sponsor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

Noun

sponsor c

1. a sponsor

Declension

Related terms

• sponsra
• sponsring

English

Etymology

Named after Nicolaus Thomas Host, Croatian-Austrian botanist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ho? st?/, /?h?s t?/
• Rhymes: -?st?

Noun

hosta (plural hostas)

1. Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta.

   Synonyms: giboshi, plantain lily

Further reading

• hosta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hosta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hoast, oaths, shoat, shota

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??osta]

Noun

hosta m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of host

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hostet

Verb

hosta

1. inflection of hoste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n?.

Verb

h?sta

1. to cough

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: hosta

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• husta

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xv?st?. Compare Slovene hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

Noun

hosta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Kajkavian) forest

Synonyms

• šuma (standard)
• gvozd (archaic)

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xv?st?. Compare Serbo-Croatian hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xó?sta/

Noun

h??sta f

1. scrub
2. forest

Inflection

Further reading

• “hosta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish h?sta, probably from the oblique case of Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hw?stô.

Noun

hosta c

1. a cough (condition/disease)

Usage notes

• The noun hosta refers to the condition or disease, not to a single cough (see hostning) or bout of coughing (see hostanfall).

Declension

Related terms

• hostning
• hostanfall

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish h?sta, from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n?.

Verb

hosta (present hostar, preterite hostade, supine hostat, imperative hosta)

1. to cough

Conjugation

Anagrams

• hotas

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

hosta

1. to rub
2. to massage

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????????????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika