French edit

Verb edit

offensa

  1. third-person singular past historic of offenser

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From the verb offendo (I strike against).

Noun edit

offēnsa f (genitive offēnsae); first declension

  1. A striking or grating against any thing
  2. Offence, disfavor, displeasure, hatred; enmity

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative offēnsa offēnsae
Genitive offēnsae offēnsārum
Dative offēnsae offēnsīs
Accusative offēnsam offēnsās
Ablative offēnsā offēnsīs
Vocative offēnsa offēnsae

Verb edit

offēnsā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of offēnsō

References edit

  • offensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • offensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • offensa 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)
  • offensa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas