mécène
French
Etymology
From Mécène (“Maecenas”), a Roman advisor (70 BCE – 8 BCE) and important patron for the Augustan poets, from Latin Maecenas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.sɛn/
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Noun
mécène m or f by sense (plural mécènes)
- patron (of arts)
Derived terms
- mécénat
Further reading
- “mécène”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.