offerte

See also: Offerte

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: of‧fer‧te

Noun

offerte f (plural offertes or offerten, diminutive offertetje n)

1. quotation (naming of a price)

Synonyms

• aanbiedingsbrief

Descendants

• → Indonesian: oferte

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fɛʁt/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin offerta.

Noun

offerte f (plural offertes)

1. (obsolete) offer, proposal

   Synonym: offre

   une offerte de prix ― price offer, price quote

   • 1788, Nova acta Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae, volume 2, Petropoli Typis Academiae Scientiarum, page 37:

     Le 11 Novembre. Madame la Princesse de Daschkaw a envoyé: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, que l’Imprimeur Antoine Zatta de Venise a publié & qu’il offre à la Bibliotheque académique en échange de quelques ouvrages imprimés à l’Académie. Cette offerte a été acceptée.

     The 11th of November. Madam Princess of Daschkaw has sent: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, which the printer Antoine Zatta of Venice has published & which he offers to the Academic Library in exchange of some works printed at the Academie. This offer was accepted.

2. (Christianity, archaic) offertory

   Synonym: offertoire

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with offrande.
• The sense “offer, proposal” is obsolete, but is found in the locution offerte de prix, which still has some currency in Belgian French.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

offerte f sg

1. feminine singular of offert

Further reading

• “offerte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

offerte f

1. plural of offerta

Latin

Verb

offerte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of offerō