Maecenas

Betekenis (Engels)

A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.

Vertalings

Mäzen

mécène

mecenate

mecenas

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mʌɪˈsiːnəs/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle French mecenas, and its source, Latin Maecēnās (“literary patron”), from the name of Gaius Maecenas (c. 70–8 BCE), Roman statesman and patron of Horace and Virgil.