different between defensor vs defenser

English

Alternative forms

• defensour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin d?f?nsor.

Noun

defensor (plural defensors)

1. one who defends; a defender

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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.

Anagrams

• fore-ends, foresend

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?f?nsor.

Noun

defensor m (plural defensors, feminine defensora)

1. defender

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.
• “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.

Ido

Verb

defensor

1. future infinitive of defensar

Latin

Etymology

From d?fend? (“I defend”) +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de??fen.sor/, [d?e??f??s??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?fen.sor/, [d???f?ns?r]

Noun

d?f?nsor m (genitive d?f?ns?ris, feminine d?f?nstr?x); third declension

1. one who defends

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin d?f?nsor.

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French défenseur, from Latin defensor.

Noun

defensor m (plural defensori)

1. (law) defender

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?f?nsor.

Adjective

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

1. defending

Derived terms

Noun

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

1. defender
2. advocate

English

Etymology

Compare French défenseur, Latin defensor. Compare defensor.

Noun

defenser (plural defensers)

1. Obsolete form of defender.

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Anagrams

• enserfed, fern seed, fernseed, seed fern

Latin

Verb

d?f?nser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?f?ns?