defensor civitatis

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈfẽː.sɔr kiː.wɪˈtaː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈfɛn.sor t͡ʃi.viˈt̪aː.t̪is]

dēfēnsor cīvitātis m (genitive dēfēnsōris cīvitātis); third declension

1. (post-Classical) Literally, “Defender of the City”: a judicial office under the later Roman Empire.

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

• cūrātor cīvitātis, exāctor cīvitātis

• “defensor civitatis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “defensor civitatis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin