offendo

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ofˈfɛn.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndo
  • Hyphenation: of‧fèn‧do

Verb

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offendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of offendere

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ob- (“against”) +‎ *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Compare dēfendō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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offendō (present infinitive offendere, perfect active offendī, supine offēnsum); third conjugation

  1. 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 [the soldier's] 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[1], 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 [is something that] 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[2], 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 [...]
  2. to meet, encounter (someone)
    Synonyms: inveniō, obeō, occurrō, congredior, prōcēdō
  3. (figuratively) to suffer damage, receive an injury
  4. to fail, be unfortunate
  5. to find fault, take offence
  6. to stumble, blunder, commit offence or sin
    Synonyms: committō, dēlinquō, lābor, errō
  7. to shock, vex, offend, mortify, scandalize

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of offendō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present offendō offendis offendit offendimus offenditis offendunt
imperfect offendēbam offendēbās offendēbat offendēbāmus offendēbātis offendēbant
future offendam offendēs offendet offendēmus offendētis offendent
perfect offendī offendistī offendit offendimus offendistis offendērunt,
offendēre
pluperfect offenderam offenderās offenderat offenderāmus offenderātis offenderant
future perfect offenderō offenderis offenderit offenderimus offenderitis offenderint
passive present offendor offenderis,
offendere 		offenditur offendimur offendiminī offenduntur
imperfect offendēbar offendēbāris,
offendēbāre 		offendēbātur offendēbāmur offendēbāminī offendēbantur
future offendar offendēris,
offendēre 		offendētur offendēmur offendēminī offendentur
perfect offēnsus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect offēnsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect offēnsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present offendam offendās offendat offendāmus offendātis offendant
imperfect offenderem offenderēs offenderet offenderēmus offenderētis offenderent
perfect offenderim offenderīs offenderit offenderīmus offenderītis offenderint
pluperfect offendissem offendissēs offendisset offendissēmus offendissētis offendissent
passive present offendar offendāris,
offendāre 		offendātur offendāmur offendāminī offendantur
imperfect offenderer offenderēris,
offenderēre 		offenderētur offenderēmur offenderēminī offenderentur
perfect offēnsus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect offēnsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — offende — — offendite —
future — offenditō offenditō — offenditōte offenduntō
passive present — offendere — — offendiminī —
future — offenditor offenditor — — offenduntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives offendere offendisse offēnsūrum esse offendī offēnsum esse offēnsum īrī
participles offendēns — offēnsūrus — offēnsus offendendus,
offendundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
offendendī offendendō offendendum offendendō offēnsum offēnsū

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Noun

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offendō f (genitive offendinis); third declension

  1. an offence

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative offendō offendinēs
Genitive offendinis offendinum
Dative offendinī offendinibus
Accusative offendinem offendinēs
Ablative offendine offendinibus
Vocative offendō offendinēs

Synonyms

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References

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  • “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[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: offendere in aliqua re (Cluent. 36. 98)
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