The corpus record — Latin

defenso

To fend off diligently, ward off

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Where it lives

Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 2 · 4.62/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 4 · 4.09/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Pro L. Flacco 3 · 2.75/10k
De Inventione 9 · 2.72/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 3 · 2.58/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Pro L. Murena 2 · 1.9/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 2 · 1.76/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēfenso — Lewis & Short

dēfenso, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a. intens. [defendo]. *

I To fend off diligently, ward off: metus, Stat. S. 5, 2, 105.—

II To defend diligently, protect (rare; mostly ante-class. and poet., not in Cic. or Caes.): moenia, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 30; Sall. J. 26, 1; 60, 3: alios ab hostibus, id. ib. 97: humeros, Ov. M. 12, 376: se ipsa moenia, Liv. 26, 45 (al. defendebant): se injuria, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 39.—Absol.: dum defensamus (sc. armentum), Ov. M. 11, 374.

In the wild

defensor Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.2.5
defensor Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.46
defensor Cicero, Topica 92
defensabant Sallust, Jugurtha 97.p2
defensor Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 21
defensorque Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 12

6 of 91 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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