defensar

• desfensar (Alghero)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.fənˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.fenˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

defensar (first-person singular present defenso, first-person singular preterite defensí, past participle defensat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. to defend

   Synonym: defendre

• “defensar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English defense, French défense, German defensiv, Italian difensivo, Spanish defensa, ultimately from Late Latin dēfēnsa, from Latin dēfendere.

• IPA^(key): /de.fen.ˈsar/, /dɛ.fɛn.ˈsaɾ/

defensar (present tense defensas, past tense defensis, future tense defensos, imperative defensez, conditional defensus)

1. (transitive) to defend

   Synonym: parear

   Antonym: atakar

Borrowed from Latin dēfēnsāre (“to defend”). Doublet of defender.

• Hyphenation: de‧fen‧sar

defensar (first-person singular present defenso, first-person singular preterite defensei, past participle defensado)

1. to defend

Borrowed from Latin dēfēnsāre (“to defend”), from dēfēndō.

• IPA^(key): /defenˈsaɾ/ [d̪e.fẽnˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧fen‧sar

defensar (first-person singular present defenso, first-person singular preterite defensé, past participle defensado)

1. to defend (obsolete spelling of defender)

• “defensar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024