defensor
See also: Defensor
English
Alternative forms
- defensour (obsolete)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈfɛnsə(ɹ)/
Noun
defensor (plural defensors)
- one who defends; a defender
- (law) a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
- (ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church
Derived terms
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “defensor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dēfēnsōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern) [də.fənˈsu]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Central) [də.fənˈso]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [de.fenˈsoɾ]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [de.fenˈso]
Adjective
defensor (feminine defensora, masculine plural defensors, feminine plural defensores)
Noun
defensor m (plural defensors, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensores)
Related terms
Further reading
- “defensor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “defensor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “defensor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “defensor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
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Noun
defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)
Related terms
Further reading
- “defensor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- “defensor”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “defensor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “defensor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “defensor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “defensor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Ido
Verb
defensor
- future infinitive of defensar
Latin
Etymology
From dēfendō (“to defend”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deːˈfẽː.sɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [deˈfɛn.sor]
Noun
dēfēnsor m (genitive dēfēnsōris, feminine dēfēnstrīx or dēfēnsātrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| 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
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, 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
- to drive the defenders from the walls: murum nudare defensoribus
Portuguese
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Learned borrowing from Latin dēfēnsor.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /de.fẽˈsoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /de.fẽˈsoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.fẽˈsoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.fẽˈso.ɾi/
Noun
defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)
- defender (someone or something which defends)
- advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
- (law) defender (a lawyer)
Related terms
Further reading
- “defensor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “defensor”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
- “defensor” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “defensor”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “defensor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “defensor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology
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Borrowed from French défenseur, from Latin defensor.
Noun
defensor m (plural defensori)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | defensor | defensorul | defensori | defensorii |
| genitive-dative | defensor | defensorului | defensori | defensorilor |
| vocative | defensorule | defensorilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /defenˈsoɾ/ [d̪e.fẽnˈsoɾ]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: de‧fen‧sor
Adjective
defensor (feminine defensora, masculine plural defensores, feminine plural defensoras)
Derived terms
Noun
defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)
Further reading
- “defensor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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