defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose) · defence · prohibition (often on signs informing onlookers that an activity is forbidden)
çekim: çoğul défenses
eş: pare-battage
köken: Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Late Latin dēfēnsa, from Latin dēfendō.
aile: La Défense, la meilleure défense, c'est l'attaque, légitime défense, prendre la défense
apology (a justification or defense) · apology (an excuse or expression of remorse for a wrongdoing)
çekim: çoğul apologías
eş: encomio, panegírico
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defence”), from ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, off”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”). In the “expression of remorse” sense, a calque of English apology, and most common in Llanito, considered a proscribed false friend otherwise.
apologetics (the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrines) · apology (defence of some belief)
çekim: çoğul apologetyki · tamlayan apologetyki
köken: Etymology tree Polish apologeta Ancient Greek -ική (-ikḗ)lbor. Polish -ika Polish -yka Polish apologetyka From apologeta + -yka.
köken: From Dutch apologie (“apology”), from French apologie (“apology”), from Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech made in defense of something”). Doublet of apologia.