Latin

Noun

dēfēnsor cīvitātis m ‎(genitive dēfēnsōris cīvitātis); third declension

1. "Defender of the City": a judicial office under the later Roman Empire.

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• curator civitatis, exactor civitatis

References

• defensor civitatis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• defensor civitatis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin