Defendant
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From Middle English defendaunt(“defending; defending in a suit”), borrowed from Old French defendant, present participle of defendre, from Latin dēfendere.
From Middle English defendaunt(“defendant in a suit; defender”), borrowed from Old French defendant, nominalisation of defendant; see above.
etymonline
defendant (n.)
c. 1400, in the legal sense "a party sued in a court of law," from Anglo-French, Old French defendant (Modern French défendant), noun use of present participle of defendre (see defend). Earliest use in English was as a present-participle adjective meaning "defensive, defending" (c. 1300).
