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Latin
Etymology
From ob- + *fendīx, the second component from Proto-Italic *fendīx, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie; bond, band”).
Noun
offendīx f (genitive offendīcis); third declension
- knot (of a belt etc)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “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