defensor

See also: Defensor

English

Alternative forms

• defensour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɛnsə(ɹ)/

Noun

defensor (plural defensors)

1. one who defends; a defender
2. (law) a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
3. (ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church

References

• “defensor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• fore-ends, foresend

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfēnsōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.fənˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [de.fenˈsoɾ]

Adjective

defensor (feminine defensora, masculine plural defensors, feminine plural defensores)

1. defending

Noun

defensor m (plural defensors, feminine defensora)

1. defender
2. (law) defense attorney

Related terms

• defendre

Further reading

• “defensor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “defensor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “defensor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “defensor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

Noun

defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)

1. defender

Related terms

• defender

Further reading

• “defensor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ido

Verb

defensor

1. future infinitive of defensar

Latin

Etymology

From dēfendō (“I defend”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈfen.sor/, [d̪eːˈfẽːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈfen.sor/, [d̪eˈfɛnsor]

Noun

dēfēnsor m (genitive dēfēnsōris, feminine dēfēnstrīx or dēfēnsātrīx); third declension

1. one who defends

   Synonyms: vindex, cū̆stōs, praeses, appāritor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēfēnsor	dēfēnsōrēs
Genitive	dēfēnsōris	dēfēnsōrum
Dative	dēfēnsōrī	dēfēnsōribus
Accusative	dēfēnsōrem	dēfēnsōrēs
Ablative	dēfēnsōre	dēfēnsōribus
Vocative	dēfēnsor	dēfēnsōrēs

Derived terms

• dēfēnsor cīvitātis
• dēfēnsōrius

 

Descendants

• Catalan: defensor
• → English: defensor
• French: défenseur
• Galician: defensor
• Italian: difensore
• Portuguese: defensor
• Spanish: defensor

References

• “defensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “defensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• defensor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drive the defenders from the walls: murum nudare defensoribus
    

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēfēnsor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /de.fẽˈsoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.fẽˈsoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.fẽˈsoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.fẽˈsoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.fẽˈso.ɾi/

Noun

defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)

1. defender (someone or something which defends)
2. advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
3. (law) defender (a lawyer)

Related terms

• defender
• defensão
• defensável
• defesa

 

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French défenseur, from Latin defensor.

Noun

defensor m (plural defensori)

1. (law) defender

Declension

Declension of defensor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) defensor	defensorul	(niște) defensori	defensorii
genitive/dative	(unui) defensor	defensorului	(unor) defensori	defensorilor
vocative	defensorule		defensorilor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /defenˈsoɾ/ [d̪e.fẽnˈsoɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: de‧fen‧sor

Adjective

defensor (feminine defensora, masculine plural defensores, feminine plural defensoras)

1. defending

Derived terms

• abogado defensor

 

Noun

defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)

1. defender
2. advocate

Further reading

• “defensor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014