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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ofˈfɛn.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛndo
- Hyphenation: of‧fèn‧do
Verb
offendo
- first-person singular present indicative of offendere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Compare dēfendō.
Pronunciation
Verb
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 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, 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 reluctant envy will fully admit
and, seeking to sink her tooth into something soft,
will strike it against something solid
c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 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
- Synonyms: committō, dēlinquō, lābor, errō
- to shock, vex, offend, mortify, scandalize
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Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
offendō f (genitive offendinis); third declension
- an offence
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “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, 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)