# defensor
## English
### Alternative forms

* defensour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪˈfɛnsə(ɹ)/

### Noun

defensor (plural defensors)
* one who defends; a defender
* (law) a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
* (ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church

#### Derived terms

* defensorship

#### References

* “defensor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* fore-ends, foresend

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfēnsōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [də.fənˈso]
* IPA: (Valencia) [de.fenˈsoɾ]

### Adjective

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

### Noun

defensor m (plural defensors, feminine defensora)
* defender
* (law) defense attorney

#### 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, 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.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* defender

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Verb

defensor
* future infinitive of defensar

## Latin
### Etymology

From dēfendō (“I defend”) +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /deːˈfen.sor/, [d̪eːˈfẽːs̠ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /deˈfen.sor/, [d̪eˈfɛnsor]

### Noun

dēfēnsor m (genitive dēfēnsōris, feminine dēfēnstrīx or dēfēnsātrīx); third declension
* one who defends
    Synonyms: vindex, cū̆stōs, praeses, appāritor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* dēfēnsor cīvitātis
* dēfēnsōrius

#### Descendants

* Catalan: defensor
* → English: defensor
* French: défenseur
* Galician: defensor
* Italian: difensore
* Portuguese: defensor
* Spanish: defensor

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to drive the defenders from the walls: murum nudare defensoribus

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēfēnsor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /de.fẽˈsoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /de.fẽˈsoʁ/ [de.fẽˈsoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /de.fẽˈsoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.fẽˈsoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.fẽˈsoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.fẽˈso.ɾi/

### Noun

defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)
* defender (someone or something which defends)
* advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
* (law) defender (a lawyer)

#### Related terms

* defender
* defensão
* defensável
* defesa

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French défenseur, from Latin defensor.

### Noun

defensor m (plural defensori)
* (law) defender

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin dēfēnsor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /defenˈsoɾ/ [d̪e.fẽnˈsoɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: de‧fen‧sor

### Adjective

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

#### Derived terms

* abogado defensor

### Noun

defensor m (plural defensores, feminine defensora, feminine plural defensoras)
* defender
* advocate

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10