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English
Preposition
offa
- (colloquial) Off of.
Related terms
Verb
offa
- Pronunciation spelling of offer.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from a Celtic language; links have been proposed to Welsh yfflon (“pieces, bits”) and oddf (“knot, bulb”).
Pronunciation
Noun
offa f (genitive offae); first declension
- a morsel; a piece; a chunk
- a dumpling
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- offa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 742
- ^ Walde, Alois (1910) “offa”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 537
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “offa”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 459