# patronus
## English
### Noun

patronus (plural patronuses)
* Alternative letter-case form of Patronus.
** 2017, Luvvie Ajayi, “Know Your Worth”, in Beverly Bond, editor, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth., 37 INK/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.
** 2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch‎, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN:For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.
** 2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water‎, Tor Teen, published 2021, →ISBN:She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.
** 2020, Sanchi, “Sanchi”, in Krittika Pahwa, compiler, The Edge of Seventeen, The Little Booktique Hub, →ISBN, page 44:I am 16 years old. My patronus is a unicorn and I literally talk to moon and love the croissant crescent. I love to talk about fireflies, stars and books.
** 2021, VeeKay, Runa: Fleeting Thoughts Collected‎, →ISBN:The screen came alive with a little ‘Hi’ / I knew you were my patronus
** 2021, Jennie Marts, When a Cowboy Loves a Woman‎, Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN:She wore khaki shorts, scuffed hiking boots, and a lavender T-shirt with an open book on the front that read My patronus is a bookworm.
** 2021 November 26, Kelaine Conochan, “Badwater ultramarathon: What I lost and found during 135 miles of the world's most impossible run”, in ESPN‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2021; published in J.A. Adande, editor, The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022‎, Triumph Books, 2022, →ISBN:Since then, Jimmie joined my relay team, and the rest is history. I’m convinced he’s my patronus. I need his fire, jokes and brotherly love to get across Death Valley.
** 2022, Alena Rehse, “You Changed Me”, in Turtles & Paperclips: My Thoughts On You, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, section IV (Saving), page 59:Falling for you / Did me good / I swear it did // You changed my attitude / My patronus / And my life // You changed me [an illustration of a Patronus-like dog]

## Esperanto
### Verb

patronus
* conditional of patroni

## Latin
### Etymology

From an unattested *patrō, -ōnis + -us, from pater (“father, forefather”) + -ō ((colloquial) agent noun-forming suffix). Compare colōnus and avunculus. See also mātrōna.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /paˈtroː.nus/, [päˈt̪roːnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /paˈtro.nus/, [päˈt̪rɔːnus]

### Noun

patrōnus m (genitive patrōnī); second declension
* a protector, patron
    Exspectō patrōnum.
       I await a protector.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* patrōcinor
* patrōna
* patrōnālis
* patrōnātus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: patró
** Sicilian: patronu, patrò
* Corsican: patronu
* Dutch: patroon
* Old French: patrone
** → Middle English: patroun, patrone, patron, patroen, patrown
*** English: patron, pattern
*** Scots: patron, pawtron
*** Yola: patroon
*** → Irish: pátrún
** French: patron (see there for further descendants)
* Friulian: paron
* → Middle High German: patrōn
** German: Patron
* Galician: padrón, patrón
* Italian: padrone, patrono
* Portuguese: padrão
* Portuguese: patrono
* Portuguese: patrão
** → Konkani: पात्रांव (pātrāuva)
* Romanian: patron
* Sicilian: patrunu
* Spanish: patrón, padrón
* Venetan: paron
* → Old Georgian: პატრონი (ṗaṭroni)
** Middle Georgian: ბატონი (baṭoni)
* → Middle Armenian: պատրոն (patron)

### References

* “patronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “patronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* patronus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* patronus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. counsel; advocate: patronus (causae) (De Or. 2. 69)
* “patronus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “patronus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin