The corpus record — Latin

patrocinor

to protect

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 3 · 7.68/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pā^trōcĭnor — Lewis & Short

pā^trōcĭnor, ātus, 1,

I v. dep. n. [patronus], to protect, defend, support, patronize, furnish a defence or protection to (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.).

(a) With dat.: indotatis patrocinari, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 46: ut non homini patrocinemur sed crimin:. Quint. 2, 4, 23: patrocinari sibi, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 148: ne ad illud quidem confugere possis, quod plerisque patrocinatur. Tac. Or. 10: nonne indignus est, cui exceptio patrocinetur? Dig. 2, 11, 2: loco, to defend the place, Auct. Bell. Hisp. 29 fin.—

(b) Absol.: patrocinari enim hoc esse aiunt, non judicare, Gell. 14, 2, 16.—

(g) With ad and acc. (late Lat.), Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 5.—Part. perf.: patrocinatus, in a pass. signif., protected, defended (post-class.), Tert. adv. Gnost. 4.

In the wild

patrocinatur Tertullian, De Paenitentia 5
patrocinatur Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 4
patrocinante Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.4.p2
patrocinatur Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 5
patrocinatur Tertullian, De Patientia 9
patrocinatur Tertullian, De Corona 6

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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