# sponsor
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈspɒn.sə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈspɑn.sɚ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

sponsor (plural sponsors)
* A person or organization 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 advertizing time.
    Synonyms: patron, underwriter
    And now a word from our sponsor.

#### Translations
### Verb

sponsor (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

* cosponsor
* sponsor-free
* sponsorial
* sponsorship

#### See also

* patron

#### Further reading

* “sponsor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sponsor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### 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

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sponsor m or f (plural sponsors or sponsoren, diminutive sponsortje n)
* sponsor
    Synonym: financierder

#### Related terms

* sponsoren

#### Descendants

* → Sranan Tongo: sponser
** → Caribbean Javanese: sponsor

### Verb

sponsor
* inflection of sponsoren:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɔ̃.sɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Further reading

* “sponsor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɔn.sɔr/
* Rhymes: -sɔr
* Hyphenation: spon‧sor

### Noun

sponsor (plural sponsor-sponsor)
* 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:
** the state or practice of being a sponsor.
** the aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* bersponsor
* disponsori
* mensponsori
* pensponsoran
* sponsor-sponsoran

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɔn.sor/
* Rhymes: -ɔnsor
* Hyphenation: spòn‧sor

### Noun

sponsor m (invariable)
* sponsor (commercial)

## Latin
### Etymology

From spondeō (“to promise”) +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈs̠põːs̠ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈspɔnsor]

### Noun

spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension
* a bondsman, surety

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cōnspōnsor

### 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, 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
### 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

Borrowed from English sponsor, from Latin spōnsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɔn.sɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnsɔr
* Syllabification: spon‧sor

### Noun

sponsor 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)

#### Derived terms

* sponsorować impf
* zasponsorować pf

#### Related terms

* sponsoringowy
* sponsorat
* sponsoring

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sponsor m (plural sponsori)
* sponsor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sponsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈponsoɾ/ [esˈpõn.soɾ]
* Rhymes: -onsoɾ

### Noun

sponsor m (plural sponsores)
* sponsor

#### Usage notes

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.

### Further reading

* “sponsor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sponsor.

### Noun

sponsor c
* a sponsor

#### Related terms

* sponsra
* sponsring