Defensor

·noun A Defender.

II. Defensor ·noun A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

III. Defensor ·noun The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.

defensor
dēfensor, ōris, m., rar. f. [defendo]. I One who fends, wards, averts , or keeps off : necis, Cic....

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
defensor
dēfēnsor ōris, m defendo, an averter, protector against : necis: calamitatum.— A defender, protect...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary