defensus

defensus is a Latin form of defendo, meaning “defend, ward off”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 5: … qui maximo ingenio sed relictus ex omnibus qui minimo periculo possem dicere, neque uti satis firmo praesidio defensus Sex. Roscius verum uti ne omnino desertus esset. forsitan quaeratis qui iste terror sit et quae tanta formido …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.8.a: Defensus error a Vergilii versibus, quos arguerat Iulius Hyginus grammaticus; et ibidem, quid sit lituus; deque vocis eius.

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.