defenderent

defenderent is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.29.5: Hi post eorum obitum multos annos a finitimis exagitati, cum alias bellum inferrent, alias inlatum defenderent, consensu eorum omnium pace facta hunc sibi domicilio locum delegerant.

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.