offendo
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofoffendere
Fromob-(“against”) +*fendō(“hit, thrust”), fromProto-Italic*fendō, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰen-(“to strike, to kill”). Comparedēfendō.
offendō (present infinitiveoffendere,perfect activeoffendī,supineoffēnsum);third conjugation
- tohit,thrust,strike against something
c.40BCE,De Bello Hispaniensi, chapter 23:Ita cum eius [mīlitis] compar proelium facere coepisset, cum undique sē circumvenīrī animum advertisset, ingressus pedemoffendit.- 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, hehit his foot.
30BCE,Quintus Horatius Flaccus,Sermo 1.2[1], archived fromthe original on2017-05-27,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 [...]
c.95CE,Quintilian,Institutio Oratoria[2], archived fromthe original on2020-06-03, book 6, chapter 3, line 67:An nōn plūrima dīcuntur quod refert Cicerō dē homine praelongō, caput eum ad fornicem Fabiumoffendisse [...]- Rather, not many things are said like what Cicero reports about a very tall man, that hehit his head on the Fabian arch [...]
- tomeet,encounter (someone)
- Synonyms:inveniō,obeō,occurrō,congredior,prōcēdō
- (figuratively) tosufferdamage, receive aninjury
- tofail, beunfortunate
- tofind fault, takeoffence
Sī Caesarem probātis, in mēoffenditis.- If you favor Cæsar, youfind fault with me.
- tostumble,blunder, commit offence orsin
- Synonyms:committō,dēlinquō,lābor,errō
- toshock,vex,offend,mortify,scandalize
Fromoffendō(verb) +-ō(“noun-forming suffix”).
offendō f (genitiveoffendinis);third declension
- anoffence
- Synonyms:offēnsa,offēnsiō
Third-declension noun.
- “offendo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “offendo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- offendo inGaffiot, 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:offenderein aliqua re (Cluent. 36. 98)
