MAECENATISM

PRONUNCIATION: (my/mi-SEE-nuh-tiz-uhm)

MEANING: noun: Patronage, for example, the support or financial sponsorship provided to artists, musicians, or writers.

ETYMOLOGY: After Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (c. 70-8 BCE), a wealthy adviser to the Roman Emperor Augustus. Maecenas was renowned for his generous patronage of poets like Horace and Virgil. Earliest documented use: 1606.
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MARE CENATISM - a large flat bright region on the back of the moon, not visible from Earth

MAE-CENT-ISM - campaign to replace Lincoln's head on the penny with the bust of a movie star

MARC-ENATISM - doctrine that Cleopatra was actually Marc Anthony's mother