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- Latin · borrowed frompatrōnus“protector”
- English todayPatronus
From Latin patrōnus (“protector”). A reference to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the term first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999). Doublet of padrone, patron, patroon, and pattern.
Words from the same roots
Latinpatrōnus all →
patronpatronesspatroonpadrone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.