patronize
English
/ˈpeɪt(ʃ)ɹənaɪz/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
- (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
- (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
- (transitive) To blame, to reproach.
Etymology
Suffix from English patron derived from Old French patroniser derived from Latin patronisāre.
Origin
Latin
patronisāre
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- copatron English
- enpatron English
- impatronize English
- nonpatron English
- patron English
- patronage English
- patronise English
- patronizable English
- patronization English
- patronizer English
- patronless English
- patronlike English
- patronly English
- patronship English
- patronisāre Latin
- patroun Middle English
- patroniser Old French
- petron Tok Pisin