défense
French
noun
Definitions
- defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose)
- (legal) defence
- (sports) defence
- prohibition
- (nautical) fender
- tusk (of animal)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin defensa, defendo.
Origin
Latin
defendo
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antidefense English
- biodefence English
- biodefense English
- counterdefense English
- cyberdefense English
- defence English
- defenceless English
- defenceman English
- defense English
- defenseless English
- defensin English
- ecodefence English
- ecodefense English
- immunodefense English
- misdefense English
- nondefense English
- self-defense English
- *fendō Latin
- defendo Latin
- defensa Latin
- defensus Latin
- defēnsus Latin
- dēfendere Latin
- dēfensa Latin
- defensiv German
- difensivo Italian
- difesa Italian
- cyberdéfense French
- defensa Spanish, Castilian
- dehesa Spanish, Castilian
- *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European
- défense Swedish
- defensar Ido
- d'fense Norman
- difisa Sicilian
- defans Haitian, Haitian Creole
- defans Mauritian Creole
- défanse Bourguignon
- dēfensa la-lat