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English

Etymology

From Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Old French officer, Late Latin officiarius (“official”), from Latin officium (“office”) + -?rius (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (dialectal, informal) IPA^(key): /??fs?/
• Hyphenation: of?fi?cer

Noun

officer (plural officers)

2. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
3. A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
5. One who holds a public office.
7. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
9. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.

Derived terms

• non-commissioned officer
• officerly
• patrol officer
• police officer

Related terms

• office
• official
• officiate

Descendants

• ? Central Dusun: upisor
• ? Punjabi: ????? (afasar)
• ? Swahili: afisa

Translations

Verb

officer (third-person singular simple present officers, present participle officering, simple past and past participle officered)

1. (transitive) To supply with officers.
2. (transitive) To command like an officer.

Synonyms

• direct
• conduct
• manage

Related terms

• CO
• NCO

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• officere, officeer, offyseer, offycer, offycere, offiser, officeere, officiare, offecer, oficer, officier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Latin offici?rius; equivalent to office +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi??s??r/, /?fi?s??r/, /??fi?s?r/, /??fis?r/

Noun

officer (plural officers)

1. A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
2. An official or officeholder; the holder of a prominent office or position.
3. A municipal, local or societal official or officeholder.
4. A religious or ecclesiastical official or officeholder.
5. (religion) A deputy or subordinate of the forces of good or evil.
6. (rare) One who supervises or organises jousting.
7. (rare) A member or leader of a military force.

Descendants

• English: officer
• Scots: offisher

References

• “off??c??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• officier

Noun

officer m (oblique plural officers, nominative singular officers, nominative plural officer)

1. officer

References

• officer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Swedish

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

Noun

officer c

1. officer, a military person of fänrik grade or higher
2. (archaic) ämbetsman, tjänsteman; one who holds a public office

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