Fromdefendi +-o.
- IPA(key): /deˈfendo/
- Rhymes:-endo
- Syllabification:de‧fen‧do
defendo (uncountable,accusativedefendon)
- defense (US),defence (Commonwealth)
defendo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofdefender
Fromdē- +*fendō(“hit, thrust”), fromProto-Italic*fendō, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰen-(“to strike, to kill”). Compareoffendō.
dēfendō (present infinitivedēfendere,perfect activedēfendī,supinedēfēnsum);third conjugation
- to drive away
- todefend,guard orprotect, tostand up for, tostick up for
- Synonyms:salvō,tūtor,vindicō,cū̆stōdiō,sospitō,teneō,adimō,prōtegō,tegō,sustineō,adsum,ēripiō,arceō,mūniō,tueor,servō,prohibeō
- Antonyms:immineō,īnstō,obiectō
63BCE,
Cicero,
Catiline OrationsOratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.6:
- Quam diu quisquam erit qui tedefendereaudeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
- As long as one person exists who candare todefend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
- “defendo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defendo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “defendo”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to repel an injury:iniurias defendere, repellere, propulsare
- to protect any one from wrong:ab iniuria aliquem defendere
- to meet force by force:vi vim illatam defendere
- to guard, maintain one's dignity:dignitatem suam tueri, defendere, retinere, obtinere
- to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles:causam popularem suscipere ordefendere
- to conduct some one's defence in a case:causam alicuius defendere
- to act on the defensive:bellum (inlatum) defendere
defendo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofdefender; "I defend"
