Latin edit

Etymology edit

From ob- + *fendīx, the second component from Proto-Italic *fendīx, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (to tie; bond, band).

Noun edit

offendīx f (genitive offendīcis); third declension

  1. knot (of a belt etc)

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative offendīx offendīcēs
Genitive offendīcis offendīcum
Dative offendīcī offendīcibus
Accusative offendīcem offendīcēs
Ablative offendīce offendīcibus
Vocative offendīx offendīcēs

References edit

  • offendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • offendix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • offendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • offendix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • offendix”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin