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sponsor

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin sponsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”), from sponsus, past participle of spondeō.

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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
    He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
    They were my sponsors for immigration.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      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.
      My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.
      • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 173:
        Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring.
  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
    And now a word from our sponsor.

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Verb

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sponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)

  1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From English sponsor.

Noun

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sponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)

  1. sponsor

Declension

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Declension of sponsor
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sponsor sponsoren sponsorer sponsorerne
genitive sponsors sponsorens sponsorers sponsorernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)

  1. sponsor
    Synonym: financierder
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Descendants

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  • → Sranan Tongo: sponser

Verb

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sponsor

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

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

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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)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔn.sɔr/
  • Rhymes: -sɔr
  • Hyphenation: spon‧sor

Noun

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sponsor (plural sponsor-sponsor, first-person possessive sponsorku, second-person possessive sponsormu, third-person possessive sponsornya)

  1. sponsor:
    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.
    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.
  2. sponsorship:
    1. the state or practice of being a sponsor.
    2. the aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.

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  • (sponsorship (aid, support)): tajaan (Standard Malay)
  • (sponsorship (process)): penajaan (Standard Malay)

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor m (invariable)

  1. sponsor (commercial)

Latin

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Etymology

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From spondeō (“to promise”) +‎ -tor.

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spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension

  1. a bondsman, surety

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative spōnsor spōnsōrēs
Genitive spōnsōris spōnsōrum
Dative spōnsōrī spōnsōribus
Accusative spōnsōrem spōnsōrēs
Ablative spōnsōre spōnsōribus
Vocative spōnsor spōnsōrēs

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References

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  • “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.
    • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo
  • “sponsor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)

  1. a sponsor
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)

  1. a sponsor
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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

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sponsor m pers (female equivalent sponsorka, related adjective sponsorski)

  1. sponsor, patron, backer (person or organisation with responsibility (especially with a religious or financial aspect))
    Synonym: fundator
  2. (colloquial) sponsor (one that pays all or part of the cost of an event)

Declension

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Declension of sponsor
singular plural
nominative sponsor sponsorzy/sponsory (deprecative)
genitive sponsora sponsorów
dative sponsorowi sponsorom
accusative sponsora sponsorów
instrumental sponsorem sponsorami
locative sponsorze sponsorach
vocative sponsorze sponsorzy

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Further reading

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  • sponsor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sponsor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor m (plural sponsori)

  1. sponsor

Declension

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Declension of sponsor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) sponsor sponsorul (niște) sponsori sponsorii
genitive/dative (unui) sponsor sponsorului (unor) sponsori sponsorilor
vocative sponsorule sponsorilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English sponsor.

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sponsor m (plural sponsores)

  1. sponsor

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sponsor.

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sponsor c

  1. a sponsor

Declension

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Declension of sponsor 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sponsor sponsorn sponsorer sponsorerna
Genitive sponsors sponsorns sponsorers sponsorernas
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