sponsor
/sˈpɒnsə/SPON-sur
/sˈpɑnsɚ/SPAHN-sur
Meaningone who pledges
Common meaning: someone who pays to support an event
- sponsto pledge, promiseLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1745 · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
Journey through time
- Latinspondeō, spopondī, spōnsum‘to pledge, promise’
- Englishsponsor‘someone who pays to support an event’ · today
spons also in: respondresponsecorrespondresponsiveresponsible
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Built on Latin spondeō ‘to pledge, promise’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry spondeō, p. 1745 · dictionary scan
Roots
- spondeō, spopondī, spōnsum Latin “to pledge, promise”
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