defendere

defendere is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 279 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.11.2: Haedui, cum se suaque ab iis defendere non possent, legatos ad Caesarem mittunt rogatum auxilium:

All forms of defendo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.