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defender
English
Alternative forms
- defendor, defendour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Noun
defender (plural defenders)
- someone who defends people or property
- (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
- a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
- (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
- (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action
Translations
Anagrams
- fendered, redefend
Interlingua
Verb
defender
- to defend
Conjugation
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.
Verb
defender (Latin spelling)
- to prohibit
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/
Verb
defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)
- to defend (repel an attack)
- Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger
- to defend (represent as a legal professional)
- (rhetoric) to defend
- to support (to back a cause, party etc.)
- Synonym: ser a favor de
- (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
- (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
- (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender
Conjugation
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]
Verb
defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)
- to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))
- Synonym: proteger
- to stand up for, to stick up for
- to uphold
- to prohibit
- Synonym: prohibir
- to claim
- (reflexive) to fight back
- (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
- (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by
Conjugation
Derived terms
- autodefenderse
Related terms
Further reading
- “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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conservator
English
Alternative forms
- conservatour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin conservator (“one who conserves”), agent noun from conservo (“I preserve”).
Noun
conservator (plural conservators)
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
- 1726, William Derham, Physico-Theology
- the great Creator and Conservator of the world
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary
- The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace
- 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
Derived terms
- conservatorial
- conservator of the peace
- conservatorship
Related terms
- conservatee
- conservation
- conservative
Translations
Further reading
- conservator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch conservateur, from Middle French conservateur, from Old French conservateur, from Latin c?nserv?tor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.z?r?va?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: con?ser?va?tor
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
conservator m (plural conservators or conservatoren, diminutive conservatortje n)
- curator (of a museum or a library)
Latin
Etymology
From c?nserv? +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.ser?u?a?.tor/, [kõ?s??r?u?ä?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.ser?va.tor/, [k?ns?r?v??t??r]
Noun
c?nserv?tor m (genitive c?nserv?t?ris, feminine c?nserv?tr?x); third declension
- a keeper, preserver, defender
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? Old French: conservateur
- Anglo-Norman: conservatour
- ? English: conservator
- Middle French: conservateur
- ? Middle Dutch: conservateur
- Dutch: conservator
- ? Middle Dutch: conservateur
- Anglo-Norman: conservatour
Verb
c?nserv?tor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?
- third-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?
References
- conservator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conservator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conservator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conservator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From French conservateur, from Latin conservator.
Adjective
conservator m or n (feminine singular conservatoare, masculine plural conservatori, feminine and neuter plural conservatoare)
- conservative
Declension
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