offendo
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offendo
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Etymology edit
From ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Compare dēfendō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ofˈfen.doː/, [ɔfˈfɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ofˈfen.do/, [ofˈfɛn̪d̪o]
Verb edit
offendō (present infinitive offendere, perfect active offendī, supine offēnsum); third conjugation
- to hit, thrust, strike against something
- c. 40 BCE, De Bello Hispaniensi, chapter 23:
- Ita cum eius [mīlitis] compar proelium facere coepisset, cum undique sē circumvenīrī animum advertisset, ingressus pedem offendit.
- So, although his [the soldier's] partner had begun to fight, when he noticed that he was being surrounded on all sides, after starting to leave, he hit his foot.
- 30 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Sermo 1.2[1], archived from the original on 2017-05-27, lines 74-78:
- Quidquid sum ego, quamvīs
īnfrā Lūcīlī cēnsum ingeniumque, tamen mē
cum magnīs vīxisse invīta fatēbitur ūsque
invidia et fragilī quaerēns inlīdere dentem
offendet solidō [...]- Whatever I am like, though
inferior to the wealth and talent of Lucilius, nevertheless, that I
have lived with great men [is something that] reluctant envy will fully admit
and, seeking to sink her tooth into something soft,
will strike it against something solid [...]
- Whatever I am like, though
- c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria[2], archived from the original on 2020-06-03, book 6, chapter 3, line 67:
- An nōn plūrima dīcuntur quod refert Cicerō dē homine praelongō, caput eum ad fornicem Fabium offendisse [...]
- Rather, not many things are said like what Cicero reports about a very tall man, that he hit his head on the Fabian arch [...]
- to meet, encounter (someone)
- Synonyms: inveniō, obeō, occurrō, congredior, prōcēdō
- (figuratively) to suffer damage, receive an injury
- to fail, be unfortunate
- to find fault, take offence
- to stumble, blunder, commit offence or sin
- to shock, vex, offend, mortify, scandalize
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- Catalan: ofendre
- Italian: offendere
- Old French: offendre
- Sicilian: affènniri
- Spanish: ofender
- Venetian: ofendar
Noun edit
offendō f (genitive offendinis); third declension
- an offence
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | offendō | offendinēs |
| Genitive | offendinis | offendinum |
| Dative | offendinī | offendinibus |
| Accusative | offendinem | offendinēs |
| Ablative | offendine | offendinibus |
| Vocative | offendō | offendinēs |
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References edit
- “offendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “offendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- offendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: offendere, nancisci aliquem
- to hurt some one's feelings: offendere aliquem, alicuius animum
- to hurt some one's feelings: offendere apud aliquem (Cluent. 23. 63)
- to feel hurt by something: offendi aliqua re (animus offenditur)
- to have something to say against a person, to object to him: offendere in aliquo (Mil. 36. 99)
- to take a false step in a thing; to commit an indiscretion: offendere in aliqua re (Cluent. 36. 98)
- to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: offendere, nancisci aliquem