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patronis

patronis is a Latin form of patronus, meaning “patron, protector; advocate (in court)”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.40: … sis distributum habere ut secum praeclare agi diceret si unius anni quaestum in rem suam converteret, alterum patronis et defensoribus traderet, tertium illum uberrimum quaestuosissimumque annum totum iudicibus reservaret.

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.1.4: … ideo, nec cur tu repugnes, nisi tamen multo minus tibi concedi potest quam illi laborare sine causa. quamquam Patronis et orationem et causam tibi cognitam esse certo scio; honorem, officium, testamentorum ius, Epicuri auctorita …

All forms of patronus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.