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defensum

defensum is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural masculine or perfect passive participle accusative singular masculine or perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.101: … allati, existimabant plerique futurum fuisse, uti amitteretur. Sed opportunissime nuntiis allatis oppidum est defensum; Cassiusque ad Sulpicianam inde classem profectus est Vibonem, applicatisque nostris ad terram navibus pari a …

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.