defensare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defenso, defensare, defensavi, defensatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
defend/guard/protect against; act in defense against; ward off; avert constantly
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...dicit pater: 'noster esto, dum te poteris defensare iniuria.' provocatur paedagogus: 'eho senex minimi preti, ne attigas puerum..." 
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...legesque severaspassus sed tacita studiorum occultus in umbra,defensare metus adversaque tela subisti 105pellere, inermis adhuc et tiro..."- P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Iazugibus erat, impar multitudini hostium, eoque castellis sese defensare bellumque ducere statuerat. Sed Iazuges obsidionis impatientes et proximos..."