Borrowed fromLate Latindēfēnsa.

defensa f (pluraldefenses)

1. defense

defensa

1. inflection ofdefensar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “defensa”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “defensa”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “defensa” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “defensa” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Nominalization of the feminine form of the perfect passive participle ofdēfendō.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/deːˈfen.sa/,[d̪eːˈfẽːsä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/deˈfen.sa/,[d̪eˈfɛnsä]

dēfēnsa f (genitivedēfēnsae);first declension(Late Latin)

1. (Late Latin)defense,protection

   Synonyms:dēfēnsiō,prōtēctiō,tūtēla,vindicātiō

First-declension noun.

dēfēnsa

1. inflection ofdēfēnsus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

dēfēnsā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofdēfēnsus

• “defensa”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "defensa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• defensa inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

FromLate Latindēfēnsa.

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defensa f (pluraldefensas)

1. defense

• Hyphenation:de‧fen‧sa

Learned borrowing fromLatindēfēnsa.Doublet ofdefesa anddevesa.

defensa f (pluraldefensas)

1. (archaic)Alternative form ofdefesa

defensa

1. inflection ofdefensar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• IPA^(key):/deˈfensa/[d̪eˈfẽn.sa]

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• Rhymes:-ensa
• Syllabification:de‧fen‧sa

Borrowed fromLate Latindēfēnsa(“bounded, defended”), fromLatindēfēnsus. Doublet ofdehesa, which was inherited. Cognate withEnglishdefense.

defensa f (pluraldefensas)

1. defense
   • 1888,Eduardo Acevedo Díaz,Ismael‎^[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:

     Por eso, los nuevos compañeros de Ismael se mantuvieron silenciosos y prudentes, cuando él estalló en cólera endefensa de una culebra. ¿Qué no haría en defensa del pago, y de su vida misma?

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2. retaining wall
3. (automotive)bumper

   Synonym:parachoques

• autodefensa,defensa personal
• legítima defensa
• mecanismo de defensa

defensa m (pluraldefensas)

1. (sports)back

defensa

1. inflection ofdefensar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “defensa”, inDiccionario 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