defensor

• defensour (obsolete)

From Latin dēfēnsor.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɛnsə(ɹ)/

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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “defensor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• fore-ends, foresend

Borrowed from Latin dēfēnsōrem.

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

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

1. defending

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

1. defender
2. (law) defense attorney

• defendre

• “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, 2025
• “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.

From Latin dēfēnsor.

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

1. defender

• defender

• “defensor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

defensor

1. future infinitive of defensar

From dēfendō (“I defend”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈfẽː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈfɛn.sor]

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

1. one who defends

   Synonyms: vindex, cū̆stōs, praeses, appāritor

Third-declension noun.

• “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
    

Learned borrowing from Latin dēfēnsor.

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)

Borrowed from French défenseur, from Latin defensor.

defensor m (plural defensori)

1. (law) defender

From Latin dēfēnsor.

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

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

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

1. defending

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

1. defender
2. advocate

• “defensor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024