patronage

patronage
subs.
P. προστασία, ἡ.

PATRONAGE

patronatus -ūs; patrocinium; praesidium; *arbitrium muneris deferendi demandandi (right of appointing to an office): jus patrcnorum: jus patronatus (right of patronage). To exercise patronage jus patronatus exercere: to reserve the right of patronage mihi in aliquid servatur jus patronorum.

patronage:

1. patrōcĭnium (any relation analogous to that which a Roman patronus sustained to a cliens): to enjoy any one's p., alicujus p. uti, Sall. Cat. 41: less freq. pl.: Nep. Phoc. 3 (utraque [factio] Macedonum patrociniis utebatur).

2. praesĭdium: v. PROTECTION, SAFEGUARD. (Patronatus, ūs [extr. rare], the condition of a patronus in Roman sense only: used in Mod. Lat. in eccl. sense: v. Du C., s. v.)

3. clientēla (strictly the relation of a cliens to a patronus; hence, in gen. sense, patronage, protection): to be under any one's protection and p., in alicujus fide et c. esse, Cic. R. Am. 33, 93: poets under the p. of the Muses, poetae sub c. Musarum, Suet. Gr. 6.

4. expr. by patrōnus, praeses; esp. as abl. absol.: under the p. of the Queen, *patrona ac praeside Regina: v. PATRON, PATRONESS. Phr.: to bestow p. on, favēre (with dat.): cf. Virg. G. 1, 18, adsis, O Tegeaee, favens! give me thy p., god of Tegea!

patrocinium
protection, advocacy, defence, patronage

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appearing fewer than 50 times

clientela
clientship, patronage, protection, the relation of a client to his patron