sponsorとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈspɒn.sə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑn.səɹ/

名詞

sponsor (複数形 sponsors)

1. A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.

   He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.

   They were my sponsors for immigration.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

   1. A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.

      My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.

2. One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.

   And now a word from our sponsor.

同意語

• (one that pays the cost of event, media program): patron, underwriter

動詞

sponsor (三人称単数 現在形 sponsors, 現在分詞 sponsoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 sponsored)

1. (transitive) To be a sponsor for.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

派生語

• sponsorial
• sponsorship

Further reading

• sponsor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sponsor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

語源

From spondeō (“to promise”) +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.sor/, [ˈspõː.sɔr]

名詞

spōnsor m (genitive spōnsōris); third declension

1. a bondsman, surety

Inflection

Third declension.

参照

• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sponsor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponsor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be security for some one: sponsionem facere, sponsorem esse pro aliquo
    
• sponsor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin