offendo

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

offendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of offendere

Anagrams

• effondo

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ofˈfen.doː/, [ɔfˈfɛn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ofˈfen.do/, [ofˈfɛn̪d̪o]

Verb

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

1. I hit, thrust, strike.
2. I meet, encounter (someone).

   Synonyms: inveniō, obeō, occurrō

3. (figuratively) I suffer damage, receive an injury.
4. I fail, am unfortunate.
5. I find fault, take offence.
6. I stumble, blunder, commit offence.
7. I shock, vex, offend, mortify, scandalize.

Conjugation

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

• offendiculum
• offēnsa
• offēnsibilis
• offēnsiō
• offēnsō
• offēnsor
• offēnsum
• offēnsus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: ofendre
• Italian: offendere
• Old French: offendre
  • Middle French: offendre
    • → Middle English: offenden
      • English: offend
      • Scots: offend
• Sicilian: affènniri
• Spanish: ofender
• Venetan: ofendar

Noun

offendō f (genitive offendinis); third declension

1. an offence.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	offendō	offendinēs
genitive	offendinis	offendinum
dative	offendinī	offendinibus
accusative	offendinem	offendinēs
ablative	offendine	offendinibus
vocative	offendō	offendinēs

Synonyms

• (an offense): offēnsa, offēnsiō

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^[1], 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)