defensa

defensa is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.42: … vero contra bellum praedonum classem habuit ornatam diligentiamque in eo singularem, itaque ab isto praeclare defensa provincia est. sic de bello praedonum, sic de classe Siciliensi, iudices, dicam ut hoc iam ante confirmem, in …

Ovid, Amores 2.5.48: Defensa est armis nostra puella suis.

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.