Latin

Noun

pātrōcinium n ‎(genitive pātrōciniī); second declension

1. protection, defence
2. patronage

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: patrocinio
• Portuguese: patrocínio

References

• patrocinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patrocinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PATROCINIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “patrocinium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.