sponsor
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin sponsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”), from sponsus, past participle of spondeō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈspɒn.sə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspɑn.sɚ/
Noun
editsponsor (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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Translations
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Verb
editsponsor (third-person singular simple present sponsors, present participle sponsoring, simple past and past participle sponsored)
- (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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- “sponsor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sponsor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editDanish
editEtymology
editNoun
editsponsor c (singular definite sponsoren, plural indefinite sponsorer)
Declension
editcommon gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sponsor | sponsoren | sponsorer | sponsorerne |
genitive | sponsors | sponsorens | sponsorers | sponsorernes |
Further reading
edit- “sponsor” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editsponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)
- sponsor
- Synonym: financierder
Related terms
editDescendants
editVerb
editsponsor
- inflection of sponsoren:
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponsor 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
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “sponsor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
edit- “sponsor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponsor (plural sponsor-sponsor, first-person possessive sponsorku, second-person possessive sponsormu, third-person possessive sponsornya)
- sponsor:
- 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.
- one that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
- sponsorship:
Synonyms
edit- (sponsorship (aid, support)): tajaan (Standard Malay)
- (sponsorship (process)): penajaan (Standard Malay)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “sponsor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponsor m (invariable)
- sponsor (commercial)
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom spondeō (“to promise”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈs̠põːs̠ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈspɔnsor]
Noun
editspōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | spōnsor | spōnsōrēs |
Genitive | spōnsōris | spōnsōrum |
Dative | spōnsōrī | spōnsōribus |
Accusative | spōnsōrem | spōnsōrēs |
Ablative | spōnsōre | spōnsōribus |
Vocative | spōnsor | spōnsōrēs |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “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
- 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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
editsponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorer, definite plural sponsorene)
- a sponsor
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “sponsor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
editsponsor m (definite singular sponsoren, indefinite plural sponsorar, definite plural sponsorane)
- a sponsor
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “sponsor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponsor m pers (female equivalent sponsorka, related adjective sponsorski)
- sponsor, patron, backer (person or organisation with responsibility (especially with a religious or financial aspect))
- Synonym: fundator
- (colloquial) sponsor (one that pays all or part of the cost of an event)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | sponsor | sponsorzy/sponsory (deprecative) |
genitive | sponsora | sponsorów |
dative | sponsorowi | sponsorom |
accusative | sponsora | sponsorów |
instrumental | sponsorem | sponsorami |
locative | sponsorze | sponsorach |
vocative | sponsorze | sponsorzy |
Derived terms
edit- sponsorować impf
- zasponsorować pf
Related terms
editFurther reading
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editsponsor m (plural sponsori)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English sponsor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsponsor m (plural sponsores)
Usage notes
editAccording 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.
Further reading
edit- “sponsor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English sponsor.
Noun
editsponsor c
- a sponsor
Declension
editDeclension of sponsor | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sponsor | sponsorn | sponsorer | sponsorerna |
Genitive | sponsors | sponsorns | sponsorers | sponsorernas |
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- en:Money
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- en:People
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/sɔr
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔnsor
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- Italian lemmas
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- pl:Male people
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- pl:Philanthropy
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- Rhymes:Spanish/onsoɾ
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