The corpus record — Latin

patrona

a protectress

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Where it lives

Pro M. Scauro 2 · 6.73/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

pā^trōna — Lewis & Short

pā^trōna, ae,

I f [patronus], a protectress, patroness.

I Lit.

A In gen.: bonam atque opsequentem deam atque haut gravatam patronam execuntur, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 4: te mihi patronam capio. Thais, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 48 cum lex ipsa sociorum atque amicorum populi Romani patrona sit. Cic. Div in Caecil. 20, 65.—

B In partic., the mistress of a freedman, a patroness, Plin. Ep. 10, 4, 2.—

II Trop., a protectress: provocatio patrona illa civitatis ac vindex libertatis, Cic. de Or. 2, 48, 199; Mart. 7, 72, 14.—Of the tongue, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 26.

In the wild

patrona Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 65
patrona Tertullian, De Pudicitia 10
patronam Cicero, De Oratore 2.199
patronam Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.5.2
Patrona Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.11.7
patronam Plautus, Asinaria 2.2

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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